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[00:00:37] <exec> 08└─In CSS [mozilla.org] but not commonly used for screen media and alternate print styles are also not common.
[00:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:38] <exec> 08└─I came here to say this. Looks like everyone else feels the same. Out of my way, Microsoft, just let me type what I want. I usually have autocorrect turned off anyway. This made me remember a paper I read over 10 years ago about LaTeX. The crux of it came down to, you should not be interested or dis...
[00:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:40] <exec> 08└─well tell me how to parse this sentence so that it goes from one line to 2. I called Mr. Jones to tell him I would be late. He said ok. parsing for ". " [one space] results in: I called Mr. Jones to tell him I would be late. He said ok. I did tons of parsing from phone company data back in my last j...
[00:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:42] <exec> 08└─Can anybody explain this using a care analogy?
[00:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's right, but just try telling todays kids...
[00:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:43] <exec> 08└─It would make a terrible chemical weapon. It boils above 40C, so you would need something to heat it without decomposing it, it needs a fairly high concentration to do more than make you cough, and the effects pass fairly quickly after exposure is discontinued.
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[00:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:17] <exec> 08└─They wasted money. I’ve building the network. You want to be at least 10% behind the curve. Then build what WAS needed. How are ghrr err y making money??? Signed AT&T
[00:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:19] <exec> 08└─The people injecting bleach and drinking lysol are probably the same idiots that believe concast. I really can't believe someone is that dumb.
[00:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:21] <exec> 08└─I for one have high hopes for Starlink. Probably too high, but any competition in the telecom business is good. Just look at google fiber. They barely made a dent, but everywhere they went, AT&T, et al, magically made their service better.
[00:58:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 859 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:31] <exec> 08└─I've never gotten to fly in one of these, and I hope I can before they're gone. It's too bad they didn't have more success; not only are they reputed to be a fantastic experience for passengers, but even though they're not known for fantastic fuel economy, it seems like they should have excellent pe...
[00:58:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:48] <exec> 08└─This means something else. It means Lenovo thinks they are immune from pressure from Microsoft on Windows licenses. A dozen years ago when Netbooks became "a thang", Microsoft managed to kill Netbooks by: * resurrecting Windows XP, but only for Netbooks * at a price (zero) that OEMs couldn't refuse...
[00:59:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:20] <exec> 08└─That's what she said.
[00:59:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:33] <exec> 08└─If two spaces indicate the sentence is over then what the fuck is the period for?
[00:59:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:35] <exec> 08└─All I know is: no fuck during period.
[00:59:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:47] <exec> 08└─How do you typo "QWERTY"? The letters are literally lined up for you at the top of the keyboard!
[00:59:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:59] <exec> 08└─I used to do real typesetting for a living, from setting lead type in galleys, to the Compugraphic MCS PowerView, to the Mac...so I'm God 🤣. Two spaces is an error, I don't care what they told you in typing class. Everybody get this tattooed on your forearm. And Microsoft Word isn't a typesetter....
[01:00:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bloodnok [2578] 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1639 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:20] <exec> 08└─As someone above pointed out: from a typesetting point of view, 2 spaces after a period is an error. But from the point of view of reading non-typeset text, 2 spaces after a period makes the text easier to scan. If you are typing on a typewriter you are not typesetting. If you are writing comments i...
[01:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:39] <exec> 08└─What's really depressing, for those of us in the US at least, is taking your comment and replacing "chemical accident" with "preparing for COVID-19". "sad it is that the government couldn't admit it" "made close to hilarious comments on the situation" "muchos cover-up, trying to make THIS the story"...
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[01:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:05] <exec> 08└─A real hacker pirates 2600 Magazine, and then doesn't read it.
[01:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:07] <exec> 08└─I've been a subscriber for over 15 years - now only receiving the PDF version. Sign up to keep these guys going, please.
[01:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:33] <exec> 08└─Friend, if only you'd bundle phone tether with a landline and sport channel package you'd save thousands. Innovation is alive and well.
[01:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:35] <exec> 08└─In WW1 the Germans cleansed the lungs of the English working class with chlorine gas while they were observing lockdown due to machine-gun fire. Nobody died of coronavirus.
[01:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:37] <exec> 08└─Well, let's see what happens after they are done their merger.
[02:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:40] <exec> 08└─I found out about " print on demand" a few years ago when I ordered some really obscure books on analog oscillator design. I was pleasantly surprised the book I got was brand new; I did not think there was any way I was going to see this old genius's design notes. Someone cared enough to save it. He...
[02:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:42] <exec> 08└─If we make it Public Domain, the Good Stuff will be with us forever. The works of the Masters will not fade into Oblivion. The works of Mozart and Beethoven will live as long as people are here who value their contributions. DRM will only sentence the work to encrypted oblivion. As have so many sof...
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[02:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:56] <exec> 08└─The virus lays bare the bullshit that we all deal with on a daily basis. The idea that Barnes and Noble is a community based store is ridiculous. The rules are made in a board room based on insurance rates, lawyer fees, laws they're trying to dodge in various markets, precedents they don't want to s...
[02:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jon3k [3718] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:58] <exec> 08└─Coincidentally enough I actually just signed up for a subscription starting from the last issue. There's something about holding it in your hand and reading it that makes it so special. They are kind of the last thread I remember still carrying on the original hacker ethos from the 80s. Everyone els...
[02:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Dino Cave' Reveals Dinosaur Crouch Walkers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:06] <exec> 08└─Back-in-my-day, we also called them 'lot-lizzards'.
[03:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UN: Consequences Remain Decades after Chernobyl Disaster - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:44] <exec> 08└─3 mile island would be a step up for the current administration.
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[03:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:00] <exec> 08└─Father: One day, lad, all this will be yours! PRINCE HERBERT: What, the curtains? FATHER: No. Not the curtains, lad. All that you can see, stretched out over the hills and valleys of this land! This'll be your kingdom, lad. HERBERT: But Mother-- FATHER: Father, lad. Father. HERBERT: B-- b-- but Fath...
[03:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:02] <exec> 08└─This one is only ever going to get a single Raptor engine and make a 150 meter hop, same as Starhopper. It is much larger, so a structural weakness could be exposed by the test launch. The good news is that SN5 is being built rapidly: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com
[03:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:42] <exec> 08└─Merger? It's more like sie germans taking over. Nice surprises may happen (if you are not Comcast)
[03:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:44] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this year is Peak Dishonesty
[03:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:46] <exec> 08└─Did you forget about the people (mostly kids) eating Tide Pods, long before Covid-19? Dumb has been around for a long time. Still, I have to wonder if they're immune to Covid-19... /s
[03:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, odds are you are wrong. 737MAX had been in service quite awhile before the low-bucks/rote-pilot-training airlines got in trouble with them. US and Euro pilots didn't have any major problems because they understood run-away trim and how to deal with it as a nuisance. Not defending Boeing, t...
[03:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:05] <exec> 08└─I've also heard the story that it was Boeing that actually made Airbus into what it is today. The story goes that Airbus released the A300, a widebody, twin engine airliner in the early 1970's. Back when it came out, due to regulations you couldn't fly a twin engine plane for long routes, routes ove...
[03:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 1786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:30] <exec> 08└─My work bought me an XPS13 developer edition (it is one gen behind the latest). The tiny screen bezel is very nice. The keyboard has decent key travel for such a thin laptop, but the layout of the arrow/page up/down keys makes using them a bit frustrating. I'm running Debian Buster on it. The bigges...
[04:00:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isj [5249] 02 - 06Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos - 1353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:23] <exec> 08└─Or whatever looks nice. I believe that the idea of two spaces after a full stop originates from type writers with monospace fonts. Typesetters probably used a spacing depending on the letters (kerning). With proportionally-spaced fonts sometimes a single space looks best, sometimes two looks best, s...
[04:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NHS Rejects Apple-Google Coronavirus App Plan - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:14] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that someone outside of "one of the 5 eyes" would have better motives or goals?
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[05:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:11] <exec> 08└─Some wear a respirator because the stuff is fairly irritating to the nasal passages. And I know of several cases where giving an NSAID for pain following surgery under isoflurane... resulted in liver collapse in previously-healthy animals.
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[05:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:57] <exec> 08└─This is why you don't buy Internet-of-Trash products. If you don't control it, you don't own it. They're not products, they're services in the shape of a product. It doesn't matter how good they are, they'll stop working when the company declares it obsolete, or in this case when the company folds.
[05:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:07] <exec> 08└─I mod up the mighty Sulla, for his knightly singing skills! If only, he could find a woman, with HUGe tracts of land.
[05:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:09] <exec> 08└─it wasn't supposed to explode
[05:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:11] <exec> 08└─Looks like takyon has a taky-on! Go, private sector! Now if only we could do this with whores, to put the program on a paying basis! McGrew? You are summoned!
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[05:58:54] <exec> 08└─Mate, you wouldn't believe the amount of money I haven't saved. Can't stand innovation myself, more of an old testament type really.
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[05:58:55] <exec> 08└─Not scary any more, they've got stricter rules than US about Nazis.
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[06:57:55] <exec> 08└─Pets
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[07:58:09] <exec> 08└─On The Internet. Profit???
[07:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:32] <exec> 08└─There's something about holding it in your hand I'll let you hold it in your hand if you promise to kiss it.
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[07:59:07] <exec> 08└─Well friend there's Good News! A bundle package full of innovative sports channel and landline options. I can't wait to tell you about it. Friend? Are you there?
[07:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:08] <exec> 08└─Federal funding for you - conditional on ahhhh joking! Funding approved.
[07:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:28] <exec> 08└─US and Euro pilots didn't have any major problems because they understood run-away trim and how to deal with it as a nuisance.
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[07:59:30] <exec> 08└─>...destined to fail due to economics... This is why we can't have nice things.
[07:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:32] <exec> 08└─Why don't they make them biplanes?
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[08:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:52] <exec> 08└─So... they made enough to retire?
[08:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:53] <exec> 08└─Or some vigilante who lost data has tracked them down and is currently squeezing their balls in a vice.
[08:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:55] <exec> 08└─Or they accidentally hit someone big enough and mean enough to make retirement very, very attractive.
[08:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:57] <exec> 08└─They claim to have stopped a long time ago and are only doing the keys now. They probably stopped distributing it because the encryptor was used up and they moved on to other things or to lower their risk. Months later, the payouts have all stopped, so they can try to claim the moral high ground by...
[08:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:08] <exec> 08└─"...and all the dogs and cats died" did they get a sufficient number of disgruntled owners of hungry (or dead) pet owners lining up law suits to finally decide enough was enough, or did it just take them this long to move all the capital to different owners?
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[09:02:17] <exec> 08└─Always use FLAC for remastering, which is essentially what they are doing. Mp3 is lossy.
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[09:58:17] <exec> 08└─This is why you don't buy Internet-of-Trash products. If you don't control it, you don't own it. They're not products, they're services in the shape of a product. It doesn't matter how good they are, they'll stop working when the company declares it obsolete, or in this case when the company folds.
[09:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:22] <exec> 08└─hungry (or dead) pet owners
[09:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:24] <exec> 08└─Well, you are ignoring the cannibals. Pets went hungry, went on a little household hunt -> cannibals went hungry.
[09:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:26] <exec> 08└─Dead Pets
[09:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:28] <exec> 08└─Never let a can opener where your pet snake can find it.
[09:58:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 647 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:47] <exec> 08└─The virus lays bare the bullshit that we all deal with on a daily basis. The idea that Barnes and Noble is a community based store is ridiculous. The rules are made in a board room based on insurance rates, lawyer fees, laws they're trying to dodge in various markets, precedents they don't want to s...
[10:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:35] <exec> 08└─I just had some great shallots with gluten-free pasta lol.
[10:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malicious GIF Opened Microsoft Teams to Nasty Attack - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:02] <exec> 08└─What? Functioning vs. availability mean anything to you? Loading any other remote resource would have worked just as well at that step of this exploit. Functionally images are no different. Images are a convenient type of resource but are not in any other way integral to the exploit. Availability ma...
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[11:03:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06New Research Has Heralded a Promising Step for Wheat-Sensitivity Sufferers - 659 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:03] <exec> 08└─Half my family are diagnosed coeliac (scope and blood test) I have now eaten quite a bit of gluten-free pasta, and I have to disagree with you. Some of the commercial gluten-free pasta and bread are actually pretty good. The pasta doesn't re-heat very well, so you only cook one night's worth, but ot...
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[11:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast Extend Vow to Not Cut Off Service Amid COVID-19 Crisis - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:08] <exec> 08└─The marginal cost of them doing it is low, so why not? If they cut people off and those people then spend extended periods doing other things and forming other habits, it becomes more difficult and expensive to lure them back with advertising campaigns. Also, more broadly speaking, if people are iso...
[11:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:33] <exec> 08└─A cat? Of course sir, black and white or tabby? Oh, any colour, it's for the python.
[11:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:34] <exec> 08└─Circuit City did it to me. Divx disks. I've been leery of this business model ever since. If it has internet connectivity, buying such a thing is apt to bring much grief as it's creator may use it to compel me to his business model, including compelling me to click " agree" to whatever is on his ter...
[11:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:37] <exec> 08└─I guess you were referring to most cats come a running to the sound of a can opener. If the snake can get it turned on, here comes the meal on four paws. Surprise!
[11:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:59] <exec> 08└─in Soviet borderless, phone hacks You!!!
[11:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:00] <exec> 08└─Didn't have a Captain Crunch whistle, eh?
[11:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:02] <exec> 08└─Copyright ownership is a crime. Put the pdf on PirateBay and screw the content producers! Or does that only apply to hollywood movies?
[12:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:01] <exec> 08└─It's interesting and definitely worth doing if you can manage it, more like a flying passenger ferry than a conventional aircraft in terms of what you experience.
[12:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:27] <exec> 08└─Ah, maybe I am confused - probably wiped windows on day 1 or bought without an OS and then forgot...
[12:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:28] <exec> 08└─Speaking of System76 we're in the market for a new laptop and I'm determined to get something like that instead of the usual suspects. Can anyone speak to their machines vs., say, Purism's? I mean, we can all look at specs, but I'm curious what the user experience has been.
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[12:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:54] <exec> 08└─I tested it on the SoylentNews Natural Language Filtering System. The following comment was down-modded to -5 Troll: "Millennial transvestites like to wear dresses while dying their hair pink", but the following equivalent sentence passed through unscathed with +1 Funny: "Millennial cross-dressers l...
[12:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:55] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that Boomer Transvestites don't like to wear dresses?
[12:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:31] <exec> 08└─Actually it was the dog that typed that, not me. Him and the cat are always pranking each other.
[12:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:32] <exec> 08└─All that nice machinery. If it had only been based on an Arduino, with the standard programming port, the whole installed base of these things could have been rescued by an Arduino hobbyist. But now, these machines are just that much more e-waste. Congress legislated the law that mandated the creati...
[12:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:34] <exec> 08└─"stipulating abandonware to be public domain"! I'll buy that for a dollar! srsly: that is probably some insanely sane shit right there!
[12:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:45] <exec> 08└─HERBERT: I'd rather SING... *Music Swells* FATHER: Stop that! Stop that!
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[13:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:08] <exec> 08└─Attack, counter attack - so now the (relatively early days) NLP system will need to be trained on synonyms...
[13:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:10] <exec> 08└─It's harder to collect data on Boomer transvestites, not because there are fewer of them, but because they're all closeted and in denial (and/or dead from suicide.)
[13:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:12] <exec> 08└─Next attack, sarcasm. Good luck training NLP for that, most of the time snowflakes don't get it either (and, tbh, I didn't get sarcasm when I was younger).
[13:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:29] <exec> 08└─Or it's a smoke screen for their next trojan. Where have we seen this before?
[13:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:31] <exec> 08└─Exactly... He got caught and then an offer he couldn't refuse. Can it be more obvious?
[13:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:58] <exec> 08└─You might try a Trumptini: 1 part bleach, 1 part disinfectant, 1 tide pod.
[14:00:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:19] <exec> 08└─US and Euro pilots didn't have any major problems because they understood run-away trim and how to deal with it as a nuisance.
[14:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:24] <exec> 08└─Whoa cowboy. From your link: > Starting from the point where the Ethiopian pilots hit the cut-off switches and stopped MCAS from operating, the U.S. MAX crew tried in the simulator to recover. I claim that a more seasoned crew would have hit the cut-off switches much sooner, at the first sign of run...
[14:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:26] <exec> 08└─Anything good goes out of the market -- saying of a wise old friend. If you see something you like that is well done, well made, well designed...then *buy* *it* *now*. Soon it will be copied and the lower price copies will drive the original out of the market, because the mass of people buy on price...
[14:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:54] <exec> 08└─I can't say anything personal about it as I've only bought from the big vendors. However, the podcasts I listen to (mostly the linux shows from Jupiter Broadcasting) lead me to believe they are of similar or better quality than Purism's laptop and with a more solid company backing their product.
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[14:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:05] <exec> 08└─I resemble that comment!
[14:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:06] <exec> 08└─... is the training data set. Neural nets do best when the data sets can represent just about all the inputs that can be expected in real life.
[14:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:08] <exec> 08└─Yep, and acronyms, like Neuro-Linguistic Programming :-) The most interesting thing about this will not be the attack, but will be if it opens up further insights into how we actually find meanings in words. Similarly the wacky facial-recognition disruption techniques are interesting because they gi...
[14:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:10] <exec> 08└─You're so smart.
[14:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:13] <exec> 08└─If the weakness is in ALL neural nets.... it's not the dataset. /cluebat And right on cue the NIH has thrown all its money into AI, done by Chinese 21 yr old grad students advised by newly minted Chinese asst/assc professors. A perfectly diverse workforce (as per the UC mandate) of 95% Chinese + 5%...
[14:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast Extend Vow to Not Cut Off Service Amid COVID-19 Crisis - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:21] <exec> 08└─At least Comcast. I'm sick and tired of video chats cutting out between 10am and 4pm every day. Before and after that window, everything's great, but that's not when my co-workers need to meet with me.
[14:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:33] <exec> 08└─Where have we seen this before?
[14:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:55] <exec> 08└─Better keep that subscription up or the pet might not stay dead.
[14:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:21] <exec> 08└─No thanks, I'll wait 75 years and read the latest hacking news in perfect legal compliance.
[14:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this year is Peak Dishonesty
[15:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:55] <exec> 08└─IBM never did get their monopoly breakup. The rise of Microcomputers ("PCs") made them lose a lot of their power. Even before the IBM PC, I remember stories about how a middle manager might need to wait six months for the mainframe people to install a terminal in his office, but it was within his ow...
[15:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:57] <exec> 08└─True but misses the point. The elephant in the room was the OEM price of a copy of Windows on a new laptop. Netbooks showed that hardware was getting cheaper and cheaper. I remember in the Groklaw days, about 2007 ish, I wrote that in just a few years you would be able to get a tablet at Walmart, in...
[15:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:24] <exec> 08└─I didn't use no-sarcasm tags.
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[15:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explore the Power of Radio Waves to Help Control Fusion Reactions - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:02] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what would be impressive, would be if they could contain the splattering shit I'm about to inflict on the toilet bowl. Beer + take out = containment failure.
[15:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:20] <exec> 08└─that fools natural-language processing systems by swapping words with synonyms
[15:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:22] <exec> 08└─It sounds like a dodgy New Zealand accent.
[15:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/study-baby-boomers-are-more-sensitive-than-millennials [fox10phoenix.com] (I linked a version from a Fox affiliate so you know it's true.)
[15:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast Extend Vow to Not Cut Off Service Amid COVID-19 Crisis - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:34] <exec> 08└─How much is a Vow worth from AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast?
[15:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:47] <exec> 08└─They can't give back the consequences. Say they disabled data at a hospital, folks died, now they give back the data. What about the folks? What about a business that went under? The interesting question is why now? Maybe they got saved by religion or something bad happening around them Or somebody...
[15:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:49] <exec> 08└─Shirley, you mean Windows Update.
[15:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:11] <exec> 08└─Congress legislated the law that mandated the creation of all this waste by not stipulating abandonware to be public domain.
[15:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:13] <exec> 08└─I fully agree, but how and where would that information be hosted (initially at least)? Without some government run organization or a non-profit involved there isn't manpower or money to rescue code and paper from failing companies. So the only real solution here is to legislate that all products ar...
[15:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:15] <exec> 08└─Ah, Divx disks. Circus City. I was going to reply, but wrote a journal article [soylentnews.org] instead.
[16:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:21] <exec> 08└─Did you forget about the people (mostly kids) eating Tide Pods, long before Covid-19? Dumb has been around for a long time.
[16:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:22] <exec> 08└─Hold my bleach.
[16:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:24] <exec> 08└─>...a decision that effectively put the lid on any further investigation.... Yes I'm seeing the resonance. Let's move along, nothing to see here. No collusion or nepotism or treason just perfect phone calls. I said move along citizen.
[16:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:26] <exec> 08└─No collusion or nepotism or treason just perfect phone calls.
[16:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On its 15th Birthday, the Airbus A380 is Facing Retirement - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:52] <exec> 08└─Why would you tell us your boring ass tale about buying some shares. Bullet pointed no less. Rethink your existence.
[16:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:16] <exec> 08└─F--- O-F-F
[16:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:18] <exec> 08└─> Adults are very much like physically and mentally handicapped adults FTFY
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[16:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:57] <exec> 08└─My guess is this will end up being a spectrum disease. This specific article focuses on Kindergarten skills. I googled a bit and it seems to be a general processing problem not a 5 year old problem. I remember from CS classes a long time ago that the kids who flunked out first semester just couldn't...
[16:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:58] <exec> 08└─I have a weird problem (always have since I can remember): I'm "right-left" dyslexic. That is, I know my right and my left, but whenever I actually *say* right or left, half of the time I say the wrong word. Or if I have to point right or left, half of the times I point at the wrong direction. And t...
[16:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:00] <exec> 08└─My wife has something similar - when she's navigating for me in the car and needs to call out a left or right turn, she holds up a hand with the thumb and forefingers extended in the shape of an "L". If it looks right, then she knows that's her left hand, and can confidently tell me the direction to...
[16:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explore the Power of Radio Waves to Help Control Fusion Reactions - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:09] <exec> 08└─That's when you go do a Hank Evans on the neighbors lawn.
[16:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explore the Power of Radio Waves to Help Control Fusion Reactions - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:12] <exec> 08└─Can anyone output a standard SN automobile analogy? I usually can, but not today. Something about normal burning in a engine cylinder vs pinging, maybe, but its not that good. The best I can do is a cooking analogy where sometimes you microwave stuff like water and it all mixes to the same temp pret...
[16:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:32] <exec> 08└─It's still fun when trapped at home in times of emergent seas.
[16:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:22] <exec> 08└─Require it to be deposited with the Library of Congress at minimum, just as the company sinks beneath the waves.
[16:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:24] <exec> 08└─... or stay dead but evicted back to you.
[16:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:26] <exec> 08└─Sufficiently hungry cats will at least attempt to eat their pet humans. I'm not sure about sufficiently hungry dogs, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did too.
[16:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:28] <exec> 08└─In general we're gonna see a lot of control fraud, although on a percentage basis it'll probably seem low. So highly likely this specific individual case isn't control fraud, but there's a lot of fraud going on out there to look for and expect to find in the future. I'm just saying the chinese flu i...
[16:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:41] <exec> 08└─Thanks for everything TPTB do, but you all missed a good article title opportunity something like "Space-X and Chill"
[16:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:57] <exec> 08└─I used to subscribe, but stopped recently due to too much Trump Derangement Syndrome in the issues. Its pretty funny how leftists are all: we'd see was a sense of community
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:59] <exec> 08└─latest hacking news
[17:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:01] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the Sesame Street song: One of these things is not like the other Download something from the pirate bay. One copyright owner will: misuse the court system to discover your identitybelieve that an IP address is a personsue for everything you are worth, take their house, or in one memor...
[17:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why “Baking” Damaged Reel-to-Reel Tapes Renders Them Playable Again - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:10] <exec> 08└─Hajimiri's "famous" $200 textbook? He's not that old and AFAIK not that dead either... Hope he's not dead he's younger than me, I think. I'm moderately intrigued who the author could be. I always meant to expense account Hajimiri's book but have not gotten around to it.
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[17:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:11] <exec> 08└─I have a friend like that also. However, unlike you, his problem started later in life, after his time in the army.
[17:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:13] <exec> 08└─I have a similar thing. I always have to stop and think for a second before saying left or right.
[17:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:15] <exec> 08└─Instead of L and R, how about "me" and "you", as in: "make a me up at the light".
[17:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:17] <exec> 08└─... there's kids who take to projections and 3-d like fish to water, and there's kids who just can't draft a sketch of a cube to save their lives.
[17:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:19] <exec> 08└─If it's shared by a large percentage of the population is it a disability or a character trait?
[17:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:21] <exec> 08└─I can't wait till the education system realizes that everyone learns differently. We have a education problem, not a pupil disorder problem.
[17:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:24] <exec> 08└─My guess is this will end up being a spectrum disease.
[17:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:26] <exec> 08└─About 50 percent of the populations get lost while driving/walking, so is a little more common than character traits.
[17:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:28] <exec> 08└─Some folks just can't "do" nested loops
[17:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:30] <exec> 08└─My lab partner in college was Chinese, super bright but would walk out into traffic. Jet black hair - and blonde as they come.
[17:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:32] <exec> 08└─Are we allowed to discuss solutions such as genetic engineering, or only solutions such as building special needs schools. The difficulty in discussing such topics points to a deeper issue with our civilization.
[17:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:34] <exec> 08└─watching a TV with no picture
[17:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:37] <exec> 08└─If it's shared by a large percentage of the population is it a disability or a character trait?
[17:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explore the Power of Radio Waves to Help Control Fusion Reactions - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:47] <exec> 08└─Okay, so your standard car bounces up and down while you drive, right? Well, imagine if that car exhibited non-classical motion in a Maxwellian electron space, and the probabilities of variation of change of relativistic energy per the probabilities in variation of axial movement were inverse...
[17:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:09] <exec> 08└─You can also emphasize words in Google Search by repeating them multiple times. Sometimes helps get around some of the censorship.
[17:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast Extend Vow to Not Cut Off Service Amid COVID-19 Crisis - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:19] <exec> 08└─7 points if you are playing scrabble. About the same in the real world.
[18:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:03] <exec> 08└─And take any free money available: We have applied for all available CARES stimulus funding
[18:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:18] <exec> 08└─if a spaceship explodes you get a do-over and go back in time to prevent it happening. So God only knows how many times this thing has exploded.
[18:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:14] <exec> 08└─IBM never did get their monopoly breakup.
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[18:57:58] <exec> 08└─a universal variable?
[18:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:21] <exec> 08└─The answer depends on who can capitalize on it.
[18:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:23] <exec> 08└─The education system has known this for years. It is that cheap bastards like you won't fund it to the levels needed to hire enough people to be able to individually tailor educational plans for every student.
[18:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:25] <exec> 08└─Special needs schools doesn't carry the baggage that eugenics and "master races" do. Plus, there is no evidence that genetic engineering can fix this problem without falling into the eugenics and "mater races" trap ("white blond people are smarter than black people, so lets make everyone white and b...
[18:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:27] <exec> 08└─Wrong! Those square pegs will be pounded into the round holes and conform or they will be labeled loser for the rest of their lives. /s Frustration and sarcasm aside, I had a few classes (very few) K-12 that allowed some flexibility. The most notable was HS chemistry which was fully self-study. That...
[18:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:29] <exec> 08└─8% of men are colorblind, I'm struggling to see that as a character trait.
[18:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:31] <exec> 08└─(Obviously) not saying that your friend has a disorder, but many mental disorders, including schizophrenia, develop in mid to late twenties. Not sure why that is.
[18:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:33] <exec> 08└─"Lost in thought"?
[18:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:36] <exec> 08└─Nothing deep... but yeah.
[18:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:38] <exec> 08└─"NVLD^H^H^H^H being human is a huge and hidden public health burden,
[18:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:40] <exec> 08└─Funny thing, that. Colorblind people are better at spotting motion than those with "normal" vision. It could very well have been an affirmatively selected trait back when hunting was crucial and colors were largely irrelevant.
[18:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 4411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:42] <exec> 08└─I won't attempt to go into any depth here, but I've heard many times that there are six basic learning styles. The obverse of that coin, are the six teaching styles. Different people learn things in different ways. I'm pretty sure that has been an accepted fact of life for a long, long time now. Nev...
[18:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:44] <exec> 08└─Um, traits don't have an upper limit on the number of people who can share them. Having an internal skeleton is a trait. So is having Rh-null for a blood type.
[18:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps he was intoxicated by the aroma of pangolin soup or the Bacardi logo hanging from the nearby liquor store.
[18:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:20] <exec> 08└─Shhh, you can't talk about rising sea levels. Folks get all gun-totin' when you mention climate change.
[19:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:16] <exec> 08└─GitHub would do nicley If you cease to support an IoT gadget for more that 30 days, the whole design has to be published and available for use by the abandoned equipment owners. I won't hold my breath. So given that they didn't do this, what's to stop a grass roots reverse engineering project for th...
[19:01:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:26] <exec> 08└─You might try a Trumptini: 1 part bleach, 1 part disinfectant, 1 tide pod.
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[19:58:11] <exec> 08└─It's 42
[19:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:12] <exec> 08└─In nowadays science, a variable is called a weird constant.
[19:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:14] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, measurement error. Remember, kids, always clean the lenses.
[19:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:17] <exec> 08└─If a. I don't understand it and/or b. I can't explain it then it's weird!!
[19:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:19] <exec> 08└─If a. I don't understand it and/or b. I can't explain it then it's weird!!
[19:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 1819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:21] <exec> 08└─Same guy on the hunt: Is the fine-structure constant actually constant? [wikipedia.org] Physicists have pondered whether the fine-structure constant is in fact constant, or whether its value differs by location and over time. A varying α has been proposed as a way of solving problems in cosmology a...
[19:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:23] <exec> 08└─Today, it is!
[19:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:25] <exec> 08└─*applause* An excellent example of deductive reasoning in action. Well done!
[19:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:02] <exec> 08└─So if we cut everyone's right leg off then every newborn child for the next many years will be disabled freaks with two legs? Hmmmm
[19:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:03] <exec> 08└─"Or maybe you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground." my granddad would tell me if I had said that. ;-) But I feel for you, man. I can't say if your condition is NVLD related or not, but since I had my stroke(very mild as far as strokes go), I find myself doing things similar to what you rel...
[19:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explore the Power of Radio Waves to Help Control Fusion Reactions - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:15] <exec> 08└─Scientists experimenting with radio waves is pretty certain to be the cause of Covid-19.... Well, we need an excuse to burn things!
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[20:58:07] <exec> 08└─Same guy on the hunt: Is the fine-structure constant actually constant? [wikipedia.org] Physicists have pondered whether the fine-structure constant is in fact constant, or whether its value differs by location and over time. A varying α has been proposed as a way of solving problems in cosmology a...
[20:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:11] <exec> 08└─Other quasar owners have applied the patches timely, but not this one. "What the difference", he says, "the variation is really tiny. No reason to wipe the galaxy for a reinstall."
[20:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:13] <exec> 08└─Come on man! Refferences to HGTTG are getting really boring. Plus it was a lousy book to begin with.
[20:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:15] <exec> 08└─All known constants need to be served from a server controlled by an agreed upon respected organization. (either NIST [nist.gov] or United Nations IMF [unsystem.org] All scientific papers need to be published in a format which can check these servers for the currently accepted values of these consta...
[20:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:17] <exec> 08└─And Sean Carroll on the constant-ness of the constant: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com """ But to a modern physicist, this seems like a misguided quest. First, because renormalization theory teaches us that α isn’t really a number at all...
[20:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:55] <exec> 08└─8% of men are colorblind, I'm struggling to see that as a character trait.
[20:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:56] <exec> 08└─Not nice to talk about Runaway like that.
[20:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:58] <exec> 08└─That explains a lot.
[20:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:01] <exec> 08└─"white blond people are smarter than black people, so lets make everyone white and blond"
[20:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:36] <exec> 08└─Rising C levels demand more efishient compilers. More efishency is wanted for every porpoise.
[21:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but what's going on under the hood when you do the time travel bit, it's just reloading that instance of your rocket in Kerbal Space Program. Basically just reloading a save point. I know this is true, because I met a dude when I was in the Army, that looked just like a kerbal. Freaked me out...
[21:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:05] <exec> 08└─umm. first, you do know that political "spectrum" is a horrible multi-dimensional manifold, and not a two dimensional spectrum, right? There are no left, right or middle in that space, just where you move next from where you are. And, only decent thing one can do to a politician is to hang it on a s...
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[21:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:31] <exec> 08└─The fundamental constants servers could then be remotely updated by presidential tweets.
[21:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:32] <exec> 08└─"Grand Unifying Theory of Everything" will explain why you are wearing it printed on your t-shirt ...
[21:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:34] <exec> 08└─FFS, I was going for funny. I'm guessing instrument/calibration/translation errors here. Then again, I'm as qualified to form an opinion here as I am to dig a tumor out of your brain.
[21:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:17] <exec> 08└─Huh, didn't figure you for one of the touchy-feely positive energy only types. s - Certainly don't want any kids growing up in Amurrica with the idea that they might have some weaknesses!!!1!! - /s
[21:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:18] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on that, I've solved the problem another way - by adopting new terms. I have "right" and "the other right".
[21:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:20] <exec> 08└─Yup, I don't like that particular classification either. Until we find a perfect human, everyone will have some kind of order to some extent. I have "can't throw a javelin even if his life depended on it" disorder in *spades*, for example. And one or two others, I'm sure.
[21:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:23] <exec> 08└─Your friend sounds like one of the junior zombies who is "on the spectrum". He's great at following instructions, and does simple tasks no problem, but if it requires any out-of-the-box type thinking he gets stuck. It can wind up being quite stressful for him because he worries about making the wro...
[21:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:58] <exec> 08└─I'm sure lteaching an NLP system about sarcasm will be easy, just feed it Alannis Morrisette lyrics, that'll definitely work.
[22:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:02] <exec> 08└─You could turn it off and go outside. You have choices, despite what your masters have conditioned you to waste your life with.
[22:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unveil How General Anesthesia Works - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:03] <exec> 08└─Do they have any where the patient is immediately shown goatse when they wake up?
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[22:58:15] <exec> 08└─Sneaky fuckers wanna backdoor my computers? Well fuck you. Just as I'll never buy from Sony again after the Sony BMG Rootkit. Intel could release a vaccine for old age and I'd die with a middle finger raised up at them like at the end of THEY LIVE.
[22:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases "Unlocked" GPU Driver - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:17] <exec> 08└─Another useless step I can bypass with Linux and a GeForce card.
[22:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:40] <exec> 08└─It's more like 137 approx.
[22:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:42] <exec> 08└─To what extent would this affect the nucleosynthesis of all the elements in the middle of exploding stars? And to what extent does that affect the feasibility of life, as we know it or otherwise?
[22:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:44] <exec> 08└─We apologize for any inconvenience.
[22:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:30] <exec> 08└─I don't want to say anything bad about my late father, so posting AC, but this reminds me of something that happened when I was a teenager. We had a clothes line in the unfinished part of the basement so we could hang the big comforter up to dry. When one side of the comforter is dry, you need to tu...
[22:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:32] <exec> 08└─Uh, just noticed the quote, anyway that's my response to them.
[22:59:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Scientists Explore the Power of Radio Waves to Help Control Fusion Reactions - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:43] <exec> 08└─Okay, so your standard car bounces up and down while you drive, right? Well, imagine if that car exhibited non-classical motion in a Maxwellian electron space, and the probabilities of variation of change of relativistic energy per the probabilities in variation of axial movement were inverse...
[23:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:10] <exec> 08└─You are a natural language filtering system? Hmm. Well, on further reflection I suppose everyone actually is..... But are you an inveterate cant screening interlacement?
[23:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:11] <exec> 08└─Why did my computer system just say that the forecast was for precipitation on every day I tried to have my wedding on?
[23:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starship Chilled. Starship Pressurized. and for the First Time, It Didn’t Explode - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:24] <exec> 08└─Yet
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[23:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TAMA300 Blazes Trail for Improved Gravitational Wave Astronomy - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:04] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember the first gravitational wave detector detected nada. Zip. Nothing. Then they either recalibrated that one, or built a new one, and got results. Now, 10-15 years later, they're getting something new every week. I would put my checkmark in the "success" category. And I don't care wh...
[23:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases "Unlocked" GPU Driver - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:14] <exec> 08└─Or the full Intel CPU + Intel discrete GPU system, coming soon.
[23:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases "Unlocked" GPU Driver - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:16] <exec> 08└─I can't disagree. Yes, we now have a PS4. Granted, this is to make gaming easier but I've just found that a significant number of cheaters are using PS4 machines. Now I am wondering why I bothered. They want to install DRM and what amounts to a rootkit on my PC if I want to game on the grounds of pr...
[23:58:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:25] <exec> 08└─a universal variable?
[23:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:44] <exec> 08└─I'm sure many others are having similar thoughts. It will be interesting to see if anyone can reproduce their results.
[23:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:34] <exec> 08└─I have this, I know my right because I write with my right hand so physically put my index, forefinger and thumb into writing position. A physical check like pinching yourself in a dream and I still get it wrong verbally about 10% of the time when giving directions - confirming my right hand while s...