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[12:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:53] <exec> 08└─"I would have never predicted that males that have grown up together would be at each other's throats," says John Mitani
[12:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:54] <exec> 08└─Both share a common ancestor, this does not guarentee that a trait is present in both species. To illustrate, compare bonobos sociosexual behaviour to that of humans.
[12:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:57] <exec> 08└─"precautions make sense for both humans and chimps, who are likely vulnerable to COVID-19, too"
[12:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:59] <exec> 08└─Clearly he has never been to Baltimore or Chicago.
[12:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not certain. There are some similarities there between the humans and the bonobos. We must educate the bonobos in rape culture so that they know better. Or maybe the humans are wrong on that account. If not for rape culture, I might have reciprocated one of those many times, and of course they s...
[12:58:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Australian MPs Refuse COVID-19 App Due to Privacy Concerns - 641 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:08] <exec> 08└─Everyone who carries a cellphone, which is pretty much anyone and certainly all Australian MPs, are already tracked every minute of the day via cellphone data. The only difference is that the Covid19 tracking is made explicit and public and placed under the rule of law while cellphone tracking data...
[12:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian MPs Refuse COVID-19 App Due to Privacy Concerns - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:12] <exec> 08└─I guess they won't want the public to know how little time they actually spend at work or they can't explain why they keep showing up at certain addresses
[12:58:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices - 863 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:21] <exec> 08└─By ancient Net Masters dogma, should not Internets consider all kind of censorship a damage and route around it, rendering the censorship futile? I applaud to any dynamic solution by renegades though. The legal paradigm itself is very rigid[1] in both its rules and operations, by design, for ages, a...
[12:58:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Every Security Issue Uncovered so far in the Zoom Video Chat App - 700 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:45] <exec> 08└─How did all the major tech companies get where they are today? Not by beating the "security" drum. Release a product. Bolt on some additional features. Analyze feedback, bolt on some more features. If/when called out on security, bolt on something that resembles security. Adapt the whole mess for us...
[12:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates Speech Content Grouping - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:01] <exec> 08└─Poetry IS[...] Only later[...]
[12:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates Speech Content Grouping - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:03] <exec> 08└─So the hypothesis of the existence of a “mental template” is considered proven by existence of brain waves at a certain frequency? What would constitute disproof? Did they read the material to the test subjects at different rates and observe a correlated change in frequency?
[12:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates Speech Content Grouping - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:05] <exec> 08└─A misused toothbrush is still a toothbrush.
[12:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates Speech Content Grouping - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:07] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, just as long as no one creates AI equivalents of Dick Nixon and Bill Clinton we're fine. It's not like China stole those jobs; said jobs were *given* to them.
[12:59:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Bald Eagles, Eaglets Found Nesting in Arms of Arizona Cactus - 317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:21] <exec> 08└─There still aren't a lot of eagles of any kind, or any other raptors. Looking into the sky, if you see a bird larger than a chicken, it's most likely a buzzard. And, the flocks of migratory birds that darkened the sky like storm clouds - still gone. We've got a long way to go, to get back to our gra...
[13:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding RAID: How Performance Scales From One Disk to Eight - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:53] <exec> 08└─RAID is about either expanding your storage space, improving performance or protection against hardware failures (pick two). Backups are for protecting against stupidity or malicious actors. Get it right Joe-Sixpacks.
[13:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding RAID: How Performance Scales From One Disk to Eight - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, with the number of drives they're talking about, it's RAID 0+1 (or RAID 10 if you're being sloppy).
[13:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Offers NASA a Custom Moon Freighter - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:13] <exec> 08└─And if a Chevy Nova doesn't erupt in a planet-vaporizing explosion it's just a car? Give it a rest, it's just a name, it doesn't mean anything.
[13:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hospitalizations Down Once Power Plants Retired Coal or Installed Better Emission Controls - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:43] <exec> 08└─CO2 - natural gas plants don't filter this either.
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[13:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:59] <exec> 08└─> SN4 has been under construction for less than a month. > By comparison, the SLS (Space Launch System) has been under development for many years Apples meet oranges.
[13:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-rocket-ready-for-launch-pad/ [teslarati.com] Initial tests should just involve filling the tanks, so I don't think we would see it launch before May. Unless it explodes.
[13:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:13] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't think there are too many incel bonobos. And if there are, they are not constantly whining about what victims they are. So that differentiates them from the parent poster.
[13:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates Speech Content Grouping - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:15] <exec> 08└─Depends on the use. If my misuse results in it being left in the middle of a hot fire, then it WAS a toothbrush. Here, we don't even have that. I wasn't claiming that poems aren't poems. But rather that something which WAS "ABOUT putting things to memory" no longer IS.
[13:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagles, Eaglets Found Nesting in Arms of Arizona Cactus - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:35] <exec> 08└─There was at least 1 nesting pair of bald eagles in my old neighborhood, and now living out in the country where I am there are hawks, cranes, and owls. There's a clearly documented increase in bald eagle populations [fws.gov], from a few hundred breeding pairs to probably over 10,000. I'd consider...
[14:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Africa's Huge Locust Swarms are Growing at the Worst Time - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:08] <exec> 08└─I'm holding out for frogs.
[14:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Africa's Huge Locust Swarms are Growing at the Worst Time - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:10] <exec> 08└─Luckily for the Africans, DDT is still banned and so they are safe.
[14:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding RAID: How Performance Scales From One Disk to Eight - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:07] <exec> 08└─There are a few advantages that things like ZFS have over old-style RAID. One of the big ones is snapshots and incremental backups. For example: "With RAID you can't lose your data." Oh yes you can. It mirrors the deletes as well as the writes. For simplicity, I don't bother with RAID at home (I don...
[14:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Offers NASA a Custom Moon Freighter - 1705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:27] <exec> 08└─"dearMoon" is a passenger flight - there's going to be a LOT of unmanned testing before that. Probably several flights around and even to the moon. And since Elon doesn't actually care about the moon, probably several flights to Mars as well. After all, to get to the moon Starship will need orbital...
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[14:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updated] - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:53] <exec> 08└─Heh, lock down Michigan for public health reasons and see the redneck pouring out in the street. Lock down Boca Chica for private interest reasons and receive acclaims. Americans surely deserve the slavery to a capitalistic oligarchy.
[14:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updated] - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:54] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_Chica_Village,_Texas [wikipedia.org] As of 2008, only six people were permanent residents of the village, and that number was down to four people in two homes by 2017, with an average of approximately 12 seasonal residents.
[14:58:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:02] <exec> 08└─"I would have never predicted that males that have grown up together would be at each other's throats," says John Mitani
[14:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:09] <exec> 08└─acting like animals? You don't say...
[14:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:11] <exec> 08└─Just have them camp out in the galleries of the U.S. Capitol building to watch the Criminals in Congress(TM) at "work."
[14:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Australian MPs Refuse COVID-19 App Due to Privacy Concerns - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:22] <exec> 08└─Fyshwick: Porn central for Australia, if anyone doesn't get the reference.
[14:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian MPs Refuse COVID-19 App Due to Privacy Concerns - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:24] <exec> 08└─I submitted this one for the pure irony of it. Our leaders won't lead from the front. Unwilling to do what they are asking their people to do. It's only now they are realising that sending around electronic copies of books.. is illegal! oh no! https://www.echo.net.au
[14:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:34] <exec> 08└─They hardly care about people The law is there to protect interests And you know priorities won't change until people stop reelecting their rubber stamp congress. So we're pretty much stuck with the regular cat and mouse game, half the population battling the other half. Serves well to keep the powe...
[14:58:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Australia to Force Internet Giants to Pay Publishers - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:49] <exec> 08└─What makes Aussies think they are that important?
[14:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagles, Eaglets Found Nesting in Arms of Arizona Cactus - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:38] <exec> 08└─No roadrunners?
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[15:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:59] <exec> 08└─All we ever get from the "whistleblowers" is Hurricane Anna Nicole [deccanherald.com]
[15:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:00] <exec> 08└─If the law as written says that national security trumps freedom of speech, then the law needs to be rewritten. If a nation can't exist in prosperity and security living by its core principles, then its core principles are wrong and must be changed. If a nation cannot survive when freedom of speech...
[15:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:02] <exec> 08└─Stop trying to interfere with national security. The government has been working on a major case for almost four years now... apparently a terrorist (no doubt a Muslim or a Mexican criminal) has been using Twitter to post tweets that make it look as if the President of the USA is mentally deranged.
[15:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updated] - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:13] <exec> 08└─Hope there will be no road rage incidents due to the traffic jam.
[15:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 1890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:29] <exec> 08└─She intentionally and purposefully, for political reasons, deceived the world for decades about the nature of primates, closely guarding the knowledge she had that tribes very commonly go to war with each other, and will literally rip their defeated opponents limb from limb. She once described her h...
[15:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:30] <exec> 08└─How chimpanzees react to being slowly snuffed from existence by the ever increasing encroachment of man https://taarifa.rw [taarifa.rw]
[15:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:33] <exec> 08└─Were they wearing red hats?
[15:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:35] <exec> 08└─If chimps are our closest relative in the tree of life, it should come as no surprise that they are very much like us in the "negative" ways as in the "positive" ways. Even mentally labelling behaviors as "positive" or "negative" has no place in biology. Those are human categorizations that have no...
[15:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:58] <exec> 08└─How do you route around your only ISP?
[15:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:59] <exec> 08└─:-) Ah, really. What could be more trivial?
[15:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Every Security Issue Uncovered so far in the Zoom Video Chat App - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:27] <exec> 08└─Their stock is up 17% over the past 10 days, and holding steady.
[16:00:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Africa's Huge Locust Swarms are Growing at the Worst Time - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:16] <exec> 08└─Someone had to say it.
[16:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 1829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:47] <exec> 08└─You can see that I'm the same AC, but anyone without admin privileges can't so I'm saying that. For those who might not remember, editor moderation was quite controversial over on Slashdot. A massive amount of editor mod points were spent to mod down the first Slashdot troll post investigation [slas...
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[16:57:58] <exec> 08└─Hopefully they solve this case before November!
[16:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:00] <exec> 08└─And that was ten years ago. I hope they blow the whistle again, some year soon! /sarc
[16:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:13] <exec> 08└─Heh, lock down Michigan for public health reasons and see the redneck pouring out in the street. Lock down Boca Chica for private interest reasons and receive acclaims.
[16:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:14] <exec> 08└─What public health reason?
[16:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:16] <exec> 08└─> SN4 has been under construction for less than a month. > By comparison, the SLS (Space Launch System) has been under development for many years Apples meet oranges.
[16:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:18] <exec> 08└─What public health reason?
[16:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:37] <exec> 08└─We have here a perfect example of a typical right-wing fascist rewriting history to fit his convoluted and biased version of reality. I am old enough to have basically followed Goodall's entire career. When she started her work with the chimps, she was effectively very naive, very idealistic, very "...
[16:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:38] <exec> 08└─they should not fight for their own stuff, they should give it to the jews and gipsies, cuz they are suffering... fucking hate racism...
[16:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:40] <exec> 08└─The fact that you mentionned the U.S.S.R. and communism but not a word about the horrors commited by Franco's or Mussolini's fascists or Hitler's nazis tells me all I need to know about you.
[16:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:05] <exec> 08└─You could always pay somebody else to run the server for you. [duckduckgo.com]
[16:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:07] <exec> 08└─Yup, it makes copyright enforcement more expensive. For the claimants and for the site operators. The cheapest thing for Pirate Bay to do is blindly accept all DMCA requests, but change the URL pattern regularly. No cost to handle responses, no long term impact. It's not cheap for claimants, though....
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[17:00:13] <exec> 08└─Alligators too. When I was a kid, my parents had an alligator skin they kept in the closet. It was "grandfathered in", and considered a valuable thing that could eventually be made into something. I think they might have sold it during the late 1970s inflation period, or perhaps simply given it away...
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[17:02:46] <exec> 08└─Hasn't the enterprise-quality large file storage been distributed for many years now? As in, don't bother trying to make one huge block-level device, build a file-level service layer on top of many disks? I've been wondering about this for a couple of years, thinking that someday I'll spend the mone...
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[17:58:04] <exec> 08└─A few minutes of refreshing the metallurgy courses I took, a coon's age ago. As I thought, martensite is formed by very rapid cooling, it doesn't appear in the normal steel phase diagram like this detailed version, because the diagram lacks the dynamics of freezing directly from a liquid and "non-cr...
[17:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:16] <exec> 08└─Heh, they nailed the DNC pretty good back in '16, didn't they? It's weird that more people don't regard them as heroes for it.
[17:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:17] <exec> 08└─If a nation cannot survive when freedom of speech is absolute, then stop pretending that it can.
[17:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:19] <exec> 08└─If Twitter revealed the number of surveillance requests it received each calendar quarter, it "would be likely to lead to grave or imminent harm to the national security,"
[17:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:22] <exec> 08└─there is no rational explanation. the judge is just another whore, plain and simple.
[17:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:24] <exec> 08└─A transparent mass surveillance operation, just like the other soshill media corps. Oh and censorship too [washingtontimes.com]
[17:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:26] <exec> 08└─It would reveal the sheer magnitude of the government's incompetence and waste. A jillion security requests to TWITTER of all fucking cesspools, just to find out what everyone had to eat for breakfast, the size of the dump everyone took, how their cats are doing, and which clips of Family Guy they w...
[17:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:28] <exec> 08└─would settle for a truthful one
[17:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:44] <exec> 08└─Or a couple hours of road closures per day and a "lockdown" that causes millions to become unemployed.
[17:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:45] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNaXdLWt17A [youtube.com] Monty Python - Swamp Castle
[17:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:47] <exec> 08└─There's no intelligent life without employment
[17:59:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 1403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:06] <exec> 08└─We have here a perfect example of a typical right-wing fascist rewriting history to fit his convoluted and biased version of reality. I am old enough to have basically followed Goodall's entire career. When she started her work with the chimps, she was effectively very naive, very idealistic, very "...
[17:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:09] <exec> 08└─Some would cough a bit, some would not, and life would continue. The strategy of "let's starve ourselves to deny the virus its due" requires an overcivilized mind.
[17:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:11] <exec> 08└─"but not a word about the horrors commited by Franco's or Mussolini's fascists or Hitler's nazis tells me all I need to know about you." and what jew lies are you referring to?
[17:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:13] <exec> 08└─https://cas.uab.edu/peacefulsocieties/ [uab.edu] https://cas.uab.edu [uab.edu] You can rant and rave all you wish, but observations are observations. Humans are NOT inherently violent; some (many) human cultures are.
[17:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:16] <exec> 08└─for a negative behavior. The problem with human morals is, everyone and their dog is always reaching to tag more things "negative", for their perceived personal benefit, and thus create an utter noxious mess.
[17:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:18] <exec> 08└─"You dare contradict muh indoctrination? You dare contradict muh Breitbart, muh OANN, and muh Limbaugh? Lize! *sob* Lib'rul LIZE!!!1111!1 Muh fascist propaganda cannot be false!" *sob* *sputters all over screen*
[17:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices - 3518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:44] <exec> 08└─Whew, lots of philosophy in this one. First, the Broken Window Fallacy. At a stroke, the Pirate Bay broke in the legal world every virtual window with their name on it. Many admirers and workers of justice are angered and feel trolled. They are wrong to feel so. As you point out, replacing all those...
[18:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Every Security Issue Uncovered so far in the Zoom Video Chat App - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:13] <exec> 08└─Since it has so many issues, what is it that keeps people using the tool? Is it really just the publicity or is there something it gets right? I've been using Jitsi [jitsi.org] instead, which is open source and very easy to use.
[18:00:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Bald Eagles, Eaglets Found Nesting in Arms of Arizona Cactus - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:42] <exec> 08└─The return of the bald eagle as a major species in the US is one of the real success stories of conservation groups combined with environmental efforts like banning DDT.
[18:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:36] <exec> 08└─That's what the moderation system is for. Virtually all of the stupid shit gets modded down to -1 pretty quickly from what I've seen.
[18:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:37] <exec> 08└─What if opt-in advertising was offered? Not a lot of people would take you up on it, but any advertising/sponsorship would add at least *something* to the kitty. You could offer survey space too.
[18:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:40] <exec> 08└─There was a discussion over on IRC regarding this very point. If anyone thinks that a post is genuinely spam then they should moderate it appropriately. If we feel that the moderation is inappropriate we can rectify it, and if anyone tries to abuse the moderation process then they will suffer the pu...
[18:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 1640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:42] <exec> 08└─Have a light dose of reality https://www.vice.com [vice.com] I guess the "swamp" he is draining is actually the clean water acquifer, and it was drained right into the marshlands to not only incr...
[18:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding RAID: How Performance Scales From One Disk to Eight - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:33] <exec> 08└─We are talking about RAID use here, which is what SMR drives are designed for. It even says that in the article you linked to.
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[18:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:16] <exec> 08└─Oh wait, MAGA was a lie as is pretty much everything Trump says. https://lawandcrime.com [lawandcrime.com] The battle over the full Mueller Report has been hard fought by Judge Walton–a George W. Bush-appo...
[18:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:17] <exec> 08└─... after reviewing classified information from the government.
[18:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:19] <exec> 08└─Are there even enough spare bits around to declare them? Perhaps they could invent some kind of colour-wheel to indicate an approximate number, that way they don't have to tell the actual number ... not sure but something in the spectrum of holy-shit-brown or hell-frozen-over-blue perhaps?
[18:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:21] <exec> 08└─Secret Laws Secret Interpretations of Laws Secret Courts Secret Warrants Secret Court Orders Secret Arrests (in the middle of the night) Secret Trials Secret Evidence (not made available to the defense) Secret Convictions Secret Prisons Secret "enhanced interrogation" programs Gee, it sounds like we...
[18:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:23] <exec> 08└─When you graduate, get a job and move out of Mom's house, you'll find out that the world isn't just black or white but infinite shades of gray.
[18:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:26] <exec> 08└─The only way I can think of that the count itself is a national security concern is if the numbers were so large that it means all available data on every twitter user is being polled daily. The public becoming aware that the government is watching everyone in that level of detail could certainly be...
[18:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:44] <exec> 08└─Must be why I'm retired, wear a red hat and spout nonsense.
[18:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:46] <exec> 08└─I think your correct is not really justified. While Starship very much is in the spirit of the Mars Colonial Transport, it's not really the same entity in any way, shape, or form. Literally everything has changed about, except perhaps the basic idea of a reusable primary stage + in-orbit refueling....
[18:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:39] <exec> 08└─You mention science-fiction and fantasy. One of the major publishers of science-fiction and fantasy, Tor, sells all their ebooks without copy protection. One science fiction author reports that he has kept one of his books on the New York Times best-seller list by posting a blog entry giving the ebo...
[18:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:41] <exec> 08└─That is an interesting idea, perhaps add a bit or so to the id number for the link that just increases on a set basis as in once a week or so it just counts up invalidating all the links and requests without for that matter changing much of the function of the site. That could be fun.
[19:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 1754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:36] <exec> 08└─If I had to guess, people might be reluctant to use the spam mod because of this statement in the FAQ: "If you are unsure of whether a comment is spam or not, don't use the spam mod." They might also be unfamiliar with it because it's not one of the options at Slashdot. It might also be useful to ex...
[19:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe if someone uses the spam mod in good faith, genuinely believing the comment was spam, and the mod is overturned, it could be handled differently from actual abuse. If the user calmly emails the admins to explain why they believe the comment was spam, if it's a good faith difference in the inte...
[19:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Understanding RAID: How Performance Scales From One Disk to Eight - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:32] <exec> 08└─That's not what I read in that linked Tom's Hardware article. "compatibility issues have cropped up in RAID and ZFS applications that users have attributed to the unique performance characteristics of the drives." Another article from a few days ago talked much more in depth: that SMR drives can del...
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[19:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Lapse Exposed Clearview AI Source Code - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:07] <exec> 08└─original submission [soylentnews.org] If SN were an academic journal, some serious kicking of editorial butts would be taking place. First, giving AC the lead credit, when AC submitted after I did, having checked for prior coverage? And then managing to bury the original aristarchus submission? Wha...
[19:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Of Printing Extremely Hard Steels Flawlessly - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:15] <exec> 08└─It is called "printing", and that suggests and additive process, squirting out molten steel like plastic, but I have not heard of this being achieved. What are the nozzles made of? Voids are the least of your problems, the entire product may be more ceramic than metal. Most metal 3D "printing" is a...
[19:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:42] <exec> 08└─Yup. Brought to you by Hollywood, where every good guy ends up sadly having to torture the bad guy to save the girl. And the CSI/Doctors/Detectives/PIs need to break-and-enter private residences to save the day. Oh, can't forget all the illegal wire tapping and intimidation. But its ok, cause law en...
[19:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:43] <exec> 08└─When you learn to read a post, you'll understand that the fact that the real world isn't just black and white was exactly my point.
[20:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates Speech Content Grouping - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:46] <exec> 08└─There was a young lady from Bude, Who went for a swim in the lake. A man in a punt stuck an oar up her nose, And said "It's very dangerous to swim in here,"
[20:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 1697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:57] <exec> 08└─If that's your current policy for handling spam mods, that's good. I have no issue with that. I'm familiar with Slashdot but am less familiar with some of the tweaks that have been made here such as the spam mod. Thank you for clarifying. I was suggesting that an explanation like that of the disagre...
[20:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe his will be what you want: https://www.westmarine.com [westmarine.com]
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[20:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Lapse Exposed Clearview AI Source Code - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:56] <exec> 08└─If certain people didn't NEED to have their submissions checked, then maybe their stories would get to the front page sooner. That being said, the notion that some random, offshoot blog would come anywhere close to a reviewed publication in terms of editorial quality is so laughable that one wonders...
[20:58:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:17] <exec> 08└─If a nation cannot survive when freedom of speech is absolute, then stop pretending that it can.
[20:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:31] <exec> 08└─If the people knew the extent of it, they would demand that it stop and use more encryption, and that would make the DEA and FBI feel less secure.
[20:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:53] <exec> 08└─There is no rocket test. It is an expected Alien landing in that area. So instead of playing the weather balloon hoax, they are just closing the area so no one can see what really happened.
[20:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:20] <exec> 08└─I could be that USSR and communism were relevant to the time the hippies were active. The fascists and nazis were from a time before they were born.
[20:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:22] <exec> 08└─Correct morals are complex, in fact I think they're too complex for me. IOW: "Your moral code confuses and perplexes me." - So am I off the hook? ;-)
[21:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Every Security Issue Uncovered so far in the Zoom Video Chat App - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:21] <exec> 08└─I've heard it described as 'low friction' - Easy to setup and use. Works with everything. Higher Quality video streams over poorer connections. Also, it was used before by a relatively tech capable base (business users). But security is ever the natural opponent of ease-of-use, as they've likely not...
[21:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks a lot for the detailed information. This is a great whole-topic summary of many considerations for any other small site (and their subscribers) to consider, whichever route they choose to go.
[21:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Understanding RAID: How Performance Scales From One Disk to Eight - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:49] <exec> 08└─The problem in those WD drives are that in order to make up for the longer write time, they have huge amounts of cache. If you do certain write/wait/read combinations, instead of returning the cached data, the drive reports an error. That error is why it is flagged as bad, not a result of some sort...
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[21:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Lapse Exposed Clearview AI Source Code - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:11] <exec> 08└─Seems like anyone can look at the source now (and maybe examine it for bugs), but they don't have the data against which to run it. Considering their explicitly stated mission already makes people hate them anyway, how bad is this, really, for Clearview? Are people gonna complain about inconsistent...
[21:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Lapse Exposed Clearview AI Source Code - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:13] <exec> 08└─At least he is not spamming like ap?, not paranoid like jmichaelhudsondotnet and provides some kind of entertainment via his performance art.
[21:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Security Lapse Exposed Clearview AI Source Code - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:15] <exec> 08└─Obviously they train the AI compiled from the source code with a dataset that will guarantee false positives and show the method is unreliable. Then it will be on Clearview to demonstrate the quality of their training dataset and how their running AI is superior than the AI trained by the inferior d...
[21:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Of Printing Extremely Hard Steels Flawlessly - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:25] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_printing [wikipedia.org]
[21:58:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:35] <exec> 08└─Stop trying to interfere with national security. The government has been working on a major case for almost four years now... apparently a terrorist (no doubt a Muslim or a Mexican criminal) has been using Twitter to post tweets that make it look as if the President of the USA is mentally deranged.
[21:58:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:41] <exec> 08└─If Twitter revealed the number of surveillance requests it received each calendar quarter, it "would be likely to lead to grave or imminent harm to the national security,"
[21:58:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:49] <exec> 08└─Secret Laws Secret Interpretations of Laws Secret Courts Secret Warrants Secret Court Orders Secret Arrests (in the middle of the night) Secret Trials Secret Evidence (not made available to the defense) Secret Convictions Secret Prisons Secret "enhanced interrogation" programs Gee, it sounds like we...
[21:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:56] <exec> 08└─Nah... It was only Pelosi attempting to string slurred words into a coherent sentence.
[21:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:59] <exec> 08└─James Comey was Trump's MVP.
[21:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:01] <exec> 08└─Gee, it sounds like we've become everything we were fighting against in the previous century.
[21:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:23] <exec> 08└─That would be a good theory if it wasn't for all the amateur photography and livestreams capturing almost every bit of rocket assembly done in that place.
[21:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:53] <exec> 08└─Chimps are mostly the liberal side of the family. The (greater) apes are found on the more conservative side of the family.
[21:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, probably once in a lifetime is accurate. It's just about a millenial lifetime ago that we abandoned a bunch of chimps that we got tired of torturing. https://www.washingtonpost.com
[21:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:57] <exec> 08└─Franco's fascists remained in power until the mid 70s. Russia's communism started even before WWII, when Goodall was just a child.
[21:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.thedodo.com/new-york-blood-center-chimpanzees-abandoned-1172845874.html [thedodo.com] https://www.thedodo.com [thedodo.com] I didn't mean to put that useless WaPo link in there twice - these two dodo links are much more useful.
[22:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:01] <exec> 08└─MJGA Make the Jungle Great Again
[22:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:32] <exec> 08└─Many companies have closed down, reduced staffing, and generally speaking there are far fewer ads available.
[22:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: SoylentNews Subscriptions and Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:33] <exec> 08└─If you've never gotten "+5 Troll" you aren't trying.
[22:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Understanding RAID: How Performance Scales From One Disk to Eight - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:29] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be. Full mirroring across all disks is either RAID 1 or 1E, depending the usage of disks. It is not the same as the nested setups of RAID 10 or 0+1, which are also not the same as each other, as one is stripes of mirrors and the other is mirrors of stripes.
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[22:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Jonathan Carter Wins Race to Lead Debian for Next Year - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:54] <exec> 08└─... because he promised to feed Poettering to the cannibal pygmies or crocodiles. That's the sort of localization that will add value to Debian.
[22:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jonathan Carter Wins Race to Lead Debian for Next Year - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:55] <exec> 08└─Jonathan Carter of Mars.
[22:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jonathan Carter Wins Race to Lead Debian for Next Year - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:57] <exec> 08└─You really don't like either the pygmies, or the crocs, do you?
[22:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jonathan Carter Wins Race to Lead Debian for Next Year - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:00] <exec> 08└─Elections? I thought it was going to be done Thunderdome style.
[22:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jonathan Carter Wins Race to Lead Debian for Next Year - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:02] <exec> 08└─Starting results calculation at Sun Apr 19 00:00:07 2020 Option 1 "Jonathan Carter" Option 2 "Sruthi Chandran" Option 3 "Brian Gupta" Option 4 "None Of The Above" Option 1 Reached quorum: 301 > 45.3982378512647 Option 2 Reached quorum: 244 > 45.3982378512647 Option 3 Reached quorum: 194 > 45.3982378...
[22:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jonathan Carter Wins Race to Lead Debian for Next Year - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:04] <exec> 08└─"Carter had cited the need for better publicity" Yeah, that's what Debian needs. Right.
[22:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jonathan Carter Wins Race to Lead Debian for Next Year - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:06] <exec> 08└─You can read his platform, but they are probably referencing the ideas about attracting contributors as well as promoting the Debian system and Free Software.
[22:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Security Concerns Just Won Out Over Twitter's Attempt to be Transparent About Surveillance - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:57] <exec> 08└─James Comey is a punk. He didn't look into the DNC emails
[22:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:21] <exec> 08└─While Starship very much is in the spirit of the Mars Colonial Transport, it's not really the same entity in any way, shape, or form.
[22:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boca Chica, Texas: Scheduled Road and Beach Closures for SpaceX Testing [Updates: 2] - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:22] <exec> 08└─It's all faked by NASA's movie department. People don't talk because Freemasons.
[22:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Robs Field Scientists of ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Moments - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:57] <exec> 08└─Humans are NOT inherently violent;
[23:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Offers NASA a Custom Moon Freighter - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:46] <exec> 08└─You're insisting the land on a STAR then? no other planetary bodies? You know, when they try, you're just going to come back with "They never landed on the start, the ship was vaporized before it made contact with the surface."
[23:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Offers NASA a Custom Moon Freighter - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:47] <exec> 08└─Since when do stars have a meaningful surface?
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[23:58:08] <exec> 08└─Carter's platform is that he wants to improve the developer experience and make it easier to recruit and retain contributors. Gupta's platform was focused on improving the project's finances and business relationships. Chandran's platform was that she's a woman.
[23:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jonathan Carter Wins Race to Lead Debian for Next Year - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:10] <exec> 08└─Carrousel... for a chance at renewal.
[23:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Security Lapse Exposed Clearview AI Source Code - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:22] <exec> 08└─Clearview AI is the "most elusive, secretive and reviled" and yet, we have Public announcement of what they do - enough on its own to destroy any nascent benefit of the doubt they might receive as yet another anonymous business. Their customer list got leaked. Now, their software got leaked. It's t...