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[00:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Flies from its New Home Base for the First Time - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:00] <exec> 08└─Branson should team with Jeff Bezos and his Vanity Project, “Blue Origin” 😂 Together, they can sit in a room masturbating while watching Elon Musk smoke weed while launching humans into space.
[00:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Flies from its New Home Base for the First Time - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/05/blue-origin-orbital-arena/ [nasaspaceflight.com]
[00:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Flies from its New Home Base for the First Time - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:04] <exec> 08└─I will believe it when I see it. [huffingtonpost.com]
[00:21:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 1175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:15] <exec> 08└─The real crime is the mulcting of students with the typical educational textbook racket. Whenever I could, I always bought my textbooks used. This case is another one of those in which the little person gets punished, while the big and powerful are not only allowed to run rackets with impunity, but...
[00:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:20] <exec> 08└─No, it shouldn't. Copyright infringement means that politically-connected corporations (the "copyright cartel" if you will) might make less money, and this is unacceptable in America, so these companies paid good money to the legislators in Congress to criminalize these actions and enact enormous pe...
[00:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:22] <exec> 08└─Ah. Right. So, the TL;DR might be: If you don't like it, buy your own congress.
[00:21:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 781 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:35] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that many major telecoms in the US have gotten government grants to expand broadband access to the same areas for something like 20 years running. And of course they never do, because it's cheaper not to and they own the regulators who could call them on it (e.g. FCC Chair Ajit P...
[00:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:36] <exec> 08└─Consequences? No. That's why these corporations continue to break the law. Why wouldn't they? See: Wells Fargo. (For example).
[00:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:38] <exec> 08└─Would be great if congress were to identify the dozen most underserved areas in the US, spaced around the nation geographically. Assign one of those areas to a telecom, and tell them to install fiber. When the job is done, we pay you. Doing so would incidentally put fiber within a boatload of other...
[00:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:59] <exec> 08└─start an EV car company to compete with Tesla [wikipedia.org]
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:48] <exec> 08└─And as soon as the professionally outraged on Twitter let us, we can start treating it.
[00:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, and frequently the chipmunks break out into song after feeding them......
[00:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:11] <exec> 08└─If it is (for instance) Wednesday morning, the pill compartments for S, M, and Tu will already be empty. Problem solved!
[00:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:13] <exec> 08└─No shithole [infomigrants.net] for old men
[00:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:15] <exec> 08└─Naw man, it's obviously the 37th of Junuary...... ...or possibly Naguary, since the wife keeps complaining about drinking before nine a.m......or seven a.m.....or something like that.....
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[01:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:54] <exec> 08└─Realistically? Probably not. If anyone is air gapping a machine these days, it's because it's probably too old to be connected to the Internet anymore. Like a Windows XP machine running a very specific program, and you can no longer update the web browsers, firmware, etc. to have a usable machine. I...
[01:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JombieMan [6507] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:23] <exec> 08└─It all depends on your place in society. If your white collar, wealthy and connected you steal millions and walk away. If your blue or no collar, poor and alone you do prison time for stealing food from a dumpster.
[01:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:51] <exec> 08└─My view is that oil productive has at best a minor dependence on US force and well, so does everything else. This is instead a massive subsidy for the US defense industry - a place with much bigger subsidies and much more to gain from cutting them.
[01:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:53] <exec> 08└─And that figure, too, is misleading: direct expenditures for a nascent industry will be higher than for an established one, and that table has only three years' data, it doesn't have historic investments.
[01:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:14] <exec> 08└─Ah, good point. So we can keep making fun of the french French military :-).
[01:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:30] <exec> 08└─Quid Pro Quo involving a political rival is 100% impeachable, it's dishonorable, it's unnecessary, it's unwise and stupid optics, and especially with Trump, it's an impossible time selling impartiality in the process to gain bipartisan support.
[01:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:32] <exec> 08└─My take is that if things really are that bad, we need a house cleaning. Not a return to the status quo.
[01:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:34] <exec> 08└─Unless that's our resident flat earth, anti-vaxx conspiracy theory A/C. He believes some pretty far-out stuff.
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[02:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:46] <exec> 08└─My own thoughts are, if someone is looking closely enough at you to exploit something like this, you are probably pwned anyway. The antagonists are already so close to you that they can monitor very limited tell-tales such as the brightness of your screen, signals from the PSU, and all the rest ment...
[02:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:47] <exec> 08└─Any observable controlled change is a communication. What's so difficult to understand about it so you need a side channel expert? The more unnecessary contraptions you put added to the system, the more side channels from the system you get.
[02:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:49] <exec> 08└─Isn't is usually just easier to smack the target with a wrench than setting up be spying that closely on an individual workstation or PC? https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] Who knows, I guess....
[02:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:52] <exec> 08└─A) Any data you get is going to be very low rate, probably 1200 baud or less. B) If you can install this on a computer, you've compromised the computer. There is no reason you can't get much better data rates via other methods.
[02:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:54] <exec> 08└─More like they are so close that they can get the REQUIRED malicious software installed into the PC... Just not "close" enough to use other methods to get the desired data out. Where the desired data is of quantities that can be practically transferred at 50 bits/sec[1]. [1] It takes 5 years to tran...
[02:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:56] <exec> 08└─Any data you get is going to be very low rate, probably 1200 baud or less.
[02:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:58] <exec> 08└─I call it the BATTERY
[02:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:00] <exec> 08└─That's fast enough to download an mp3 in 173 years.
[02:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Flies from its New Home Base for the First Time - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:11] <exec> 08└─Dave Mackay and CJ Sturckow will retire one day. They'll be overheard, "We should have applied with Elon's outfit. We probably would have gotten into space if we did."
[02:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:08] <exec> 08└─Lot of things get exposed during a crisis. I sure wasn't guessing that the way our economy and society works would be questioned so quickly and fundamentally. A lot of questions that needed asking are finally getting serious consideration. Do we drive around way too much? Too much in love with ownin...
[02:24:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:54] <exec> 08└─I frequently mix up the calendar with the colander. I'm always wondering if this was really the right day for spaghetti.
[02:25:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:00] <exec> 08└─It is because "I've Got You Babe" keeps playing on the radio at the same time every morning.
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, most definitely!! I still have a number of "only dropped once" assault rifles available!
[02:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:25] <exec> 08└─The depressing thing about the French is that while people with an English background are culturally mandated to dislike them, after spending some time in France (not Paris admittedly) I found everyone was really nice, friendly, I thoroughly enjoyed my time there. It was quite distressing, I mean if...
[02:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:27] <exec> 08└─Or is it already yesterday here?
[02:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:29] <exec> 08└─I just type date into an xterm, and it tells me.
[02:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:31] <exec> 08└─Is there a time when it's three different days in three different places on earth?
[02:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:33] <exec> 08└─Kinda - https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Ships and aircraft are often lost due to the stress of passing through this illogic barrier.
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[03:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:08] <exec> 08└─He calls the attack POWER-SUPPLaY. [...] Guri and others have developed a handful of similar TEMPEST attack schemes, such as luminance signaling via LCD screen fluctuations (BRIGHTNESS), acoustic signaling using fan modulation (FANSMITTER), data exfiltration via power cables (POWERHAMMER), and cover...
[03:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:10] <exec> 08└─Depends. I use air-gapped systems in special rooms with all sorts of protections. To get useful data off of that through my head would be almost impossible, as my memory isn't reliable enough to get it of, and accessing it too often as a way to get around that would set off auditing alarms. Also, ki...
[03:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:12] <exec> 08└─Still runs through a power supply to create the necessary power rails.
[03:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:14] <exec> 08└─Khazar jewish rats stealing stuff. What else is new? Haven't they already included a 5G modem inside the intel processor yet? Or another transceiver of sorts? We need to stop these khazar jew rats before they destroy the world with more viruses and data stealing. Also remember that one way the khaza...
[03:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:16] <exec> 08└─Would that be 50 baud in countries with 50Hz power mains, and 60 baud in countries with 60Hz power mains?
[03:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:47] <exec> 08└─That's the real issue they have right there.
[03:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:49] <exec> 08└─I don't think I can afford a congress, can I pirate one instead?
[03:22:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 923 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:33] <exec> 08└─>It also would not kill the mosquitoes, so would not have an impact on ecosystems that are dependent on them as food. This is part of other strategies like a killer fungus that can almost completely collapse mosquito populations in weeks. The species of mosquitoes that feed on humans are an invasive...
[03:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:15] <exec> 08└─Blood-sucking mosquitoes are a major killer of wildlife. Caribou get bitten enough to both become anemic and get so much swelling in the nasal passages that they suffocate. Mosquitoes transmit heartworm, which affects not only domestic dogs but also wild canids (100% of coyotes tested in Texas were...
[03:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:47] <exec> 08└─No. Tomorrow is yesterday.
[03:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:49] <exec> 08└─Ehhh, I don't dislike the French. They're kind of like third cousins or something - not real close, but close enough to enjoy kicking around a little. They've committed enough military blunders in recent history, they're just open to a lot of ribbing in military matters. ;^) Had they bothered to stu...
[03:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:08] <exec> 08└─So, you've lived on the public teat your whole life?
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[04:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:53] <exec> 08└─There's a bunch of problems with the paper. Here's what I spotted: It is claimed: The world population has been growing super‐exponentially for most of known human history, and it has begun to slow down only recently (Johansen & Sornette, 2001).
[04:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:14] <exec> 08└─This guy and his team are guaranteed next going to write a PDF about using the battery API to exfiltrate data. This truly is trash academia. They have been doing the same shit for years now and beating it through the technical press. Though looking at the Register article, at least it seems to end u...
[04:22:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:10] <exec> 08└─I doubt the frequency of bankruptcies [abi.org] will rise to more than one Hertz [duckduckgo.com].
[04:22:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:17] <exec> 08└─This is the WHOLE POINT. Banks are not after money, THEY PRINT IT. The drill is, require people to borrow (simply drugging the market by the very existence of credit), borrowing is first an advantage then a need, feed on the inevitable bankrupcy. Wealth -> power -> control.
[04:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:27] <exec> 08└─This is why people have been calling for a freeze on rent, mortgage, and loan payments. It's not like the bank is going to do any better by repossessing and trying to sell the cars off and it's not like Hertz is going to jump in them and make a run for Mexico.
[04:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:50] <exec> 08└─Our relationship with France is just as incestuous as any other inside the Royal Family. Both Ben Franklin and Pocahontas (the original) were working the dinner parties...
[04:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:10] <exec> 08└─Ah, so you're denying the coup of 2014, eh? I guess your kool-aid is better
[04:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:11] <exec> 08└─I'm like you. I only believe official conspiracy theories. I mean, really! They're professionals! It's their job!
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[05:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:08] <exec> 08└─Research does suggest it has grown super-exponentially, but "super-exponentially" is referring to something other than what you must think. It means anything beyond an exponential function. To be specific in this case, they are talking about what are called "double exponentials" but there are other...
[05:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:09] <exec> 08└─My point is that the alleged superexponential function grows slower than an exponential function upper bound! And if we tried to put a γ>1, we'd hit a singularity infinity in short order - faster than double exponentials BTW!
[05:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:12] <exec> 08└─You didn't read the title carefully enough, they're discussing irrigatation, for which their assumptions are accurate. If it was irrigation then that's another story. For those who don't know, irrigatation is the feeling you get when your boss comes up to you and begins a sentence with "Mmmmm, I'm g...
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[05:21:34] <exec> 08└─Or a 256 bit key in 5 seconds.
[05:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:08] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't download a congress would you? [youtube.com]
[05:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:09] <exec> 08└─If only the Aaron Swartz case had been handled like this.
[05:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─I sure wasn't guessing that the way our economy and society works would be questioned so quickly and fundamentally.
[05:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:10] <exec> 08└─...like Donkey Kong!
[05:26:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:49] <exec> 08└─The rest of the world knows this too. Which is why we are now a laughing stock of a Banana Republic with a demented childish dictator leading a political party that couldn't deal with reality and facts if their lives depended on it. They're literally immune to facts.
[05:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:36] <exec> 08└─Ah, so you're denying the coup of 2014, eh?
[05:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:37] <exec> 08└─We have a few pro-Russian Soylentils here.
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[06:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:46] <exec> 08└─That's like 78 Tomahawks or almost 2 F-35A fighters. Unacceptable, better spend it on more tools to spread democracy to the world. /sarcasm
[06:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:47] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, instead of trying to suck up to 'ANYTHING done in the name of NASA is good' our view is a case of two wrongs, and some of us wouldnt think that makes a right. There are now viable private options at a TINY fraction of the price (Currently SpaceX, but others coming along..) - THESE shou...
[06:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:49] <exec> 08└─Just pump more money into a failing program, that will fix it. /notsarcasm
[06:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:59] <exec> 08└─I still don't get your point then. Double exponential functions grow faster than exponential functions or even factorial functions. You can trivially construct an exponential function that will grow faster in the short term to a given double exponential function, but the growth curve of the double e...
[06:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:01] <exec> 08└─There are all sorts of areas in TFA that deserve discussion, but at the root it's about water. Having grown up in the US Southwest, I have rather strong opinions about the water situation: it's a mess. For historical reasons, namely, the fact that water used to be "free" and people claimed rights ov...
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[07:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:19] <exec> 08└─Call me when they find out how to install malware on an air gapped machine remotely.
[07:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:23] <exec> 08└─No need to make this now useless hydroxychloroquine anymore! Nope, no possible reason at all!
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[08:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:44] <exec> 08└─I'd love to play these VR games but the hardware is way too expensive for me. Sucks to be a buster. I'd even like to go to one of those "arcade/pay to play" places just to try a rift for a few hours, but corona and all... Besides, I'd need a way better computer and video card which is another $1500-...
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[08:21:30] <exec> 08└─It's not realistic as only plebs do not vacuum-gap their PCs!
[08:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:31] <exec> 08└─Oy vey!
[08:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:34] <exec> 08└─With all these loops to go through to completely silence a system. Why not install a second (air-gapped) system in the room, with speakers, where input from /dev/random (or some other randomness generater) outputs into the speaker? This way you create a lot of random noise, making the signal you wan...
[08:21:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:59] <exec> 08└─The thing that gets me (apart from your points) is that I have never heard any good argument for why copyright infringement is a criminal offense at all. It ought to be a civil matter surely.
[08:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:08] <exec> 08└─Whenever I could, I always bought my textbooks used.
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[09:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:53] <exec> 08└─Takyon, our little insider trader and rocketmonger of a libertarian bent! May never you have to lift on a can built by the lowest bidder.
[09:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:54] <exec> 08└─We don't want to hear what lil' pederast guy aristarchus has to say about alt-rockets. Or anything else, for that matter.
[09:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:34] <exec> 08└─Valuable information can be very small in size, so the rate isn't really important. However your second point is the only thing that matters, and which makes this story evaporate into a puff of stupidity. If someone else's PC is running your software, it's your computer now anyway.
[09:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:35] <exec> 08└─Why not install a second (air-gapped) system in the room Or run a second thread on the same machine? - preferably hacking large blocks of contiguous ffs or 00s to deliberately create surges in the PSU load? Or, just run N concurrent tasks? (You might already be doing this - check with "ps -ax" - Thi...
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[09:21:37] <exec> 08└─We already do that with three layers. Every system and cage has sound dampening insulation. Every fan runs at full speed. And there is the noise generator that makes a sound I cannot really describe as it somehow goes beyond static, to the point where that doesn't really describe what comes out of i...
[09:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:41] <exec> 08└─> people are stupid No, I'm saying bullshit doesn't matter - it is policy that matters. How is that stupid?
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[10:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:43] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck cares? Tesla fanbois seem worse than disciples of Jobs.
[10:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:45] <exec> 08└─you treat that rocket like it’s Grime's baby
[10:21:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 1711 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:14] <exec> 08└─There are all sorts of areas in TFA that deserve discussion, but at the root it's about water. Having grown up in the US Southwest, I have rather strong opinions about the water situation: it's a mess. For historical reasons, namely, the fact that water used to be "free" and people claimed rights ov...
[10:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:20] <exec> 08└─Aside from the court case, who in their right mind would subject themselves to the same annoying sound effects that game has and the limited amount of music? For hours and hours and hours and hours? Garbage. I'd rather play frogger and let someone shoot me twice in the back of the head.
[10:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:18] <exec> 08└─That was literally the plot of it. The Earth stored all its spent nuclear waste on the far side of the moon, either sabotage or a stellar radiation even happened causing it to explode launching the moon out of Earth's orbit and sending them barrelling out of the solar system. While I doubt the adven...
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[11:20:44] <exec> 08└─In the same YouTube Q&A, Grimes also revealed that her child will be allowed to "decide their fate and destiny" when asked about their gender. She explained, "I don't want to say the gender of the baby... because I feel like the privacy should be protected. "I don't think they can consent to being f...
[11:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the cost does suck. I was lucky, updated my PC a year or so back and aimed to make it VR capable then this year splashed all my savings on a Valve Index. Half Life: Alyx is truly staggering and the first time VR has surprised me with its realism. It has also made it patently obvious that I am...
[11:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:45] <exec> 08└─For most "use cases" it seems sheer stupidity. However, think of a stuxnet type operation. You need to keep in stealth mode. If other computers do have microphones, you can build your own network. Use it for slow updates, getting the critical signal through.
[11:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:47] <exec> 08└─Video Israeli cyber-security side-channel expert Mordechai Guri has devised a way to pilfer data from devices that have been air-gapped and silenced.
[11:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:49] <exec> 08└─The more unnecessary contraptions you put added to the system,
[11:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah this is the bad side of the internet, where masses of low effort people end up relying on centralized services because they are semantically programmed with brand names. Also, this is google advertising for itself in a very sideways tricky manner. I am boycotting google, they are evil, anyone w...
[11:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:32] <exec> 08└─Is that the gregorian calendar is arbitrary and unintelligent anyway, it needs to change, it's broken, old, raggedy. Search for 13 month calendar on any site other than google. Then we reindex all days back to 1963 at second 1 of unix time and we would all be time travellers to a new year, a truly...
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[12:20:55] <exec> 08└─She has her head in the clouds. He is a realist.
[12:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:56] <exec> 08└─he is rich enough to support her crazy. she is rich enough to support her own, regardless. Anyone going to admit to being jealous of him?
[12:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:28] <exec> 08└─Nor does that doesn't change the fact that the human growth curve has been super-exponential in nature for quite some time until near-modernity.
[12:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:03] <exec> 08└─... anipulates the internal switching frequency of the power supply
[12:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:04] <exec> 08└─So what’s the path in the infected computer that goes from the file system to the power supply control system? In any system I’ve ever heard of, there isn’t one. If you are designing a system for low cost and reliability, why would you ever put a control path there? The power supply control sy...
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[13:20:57] <exec> 08└─Not sure how you would pronounce that. Maybe like Lea as in 'Zea twelve'. Calling names are important. Unique is good, but in your face unique is a handicap. It would be a pain to have to deal with the special character and numbers every time you had to do something legal like buy a cup of coffee. Z...
[13:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe the point is to force the kid to pick his own name later on and get it legally changed.
[13:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe, that would make the special characters and numbers less of a pain, but they would still be around on some things.
[13:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:11] <exec> 08└─https://store.steampowered.com/app/546560/HalfLife_Alyx/ [steampowered.com] SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS MINIMUM: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600 Memory: 12 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM
[13:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:22] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter - SLS was designed to provide a politics-proof development program for a heavy launch vehicle at a time before SpaceX was credible, and in the face of previous attempts that kept being canceled partway through. For better and worse, it'll be almost impossible to cancel SLS until it's...
[13:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:23] <exec> 08└─Washington is having a hard time figuring out how to distribute enough cash to keep the economy viable thru the virus. This jobs program is shovel ready and able to disperse the cash in a wide pattern. Judging by the SBA loans/non-loans, distribution money is not a trivial exercise by Washi...
[13:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:38] <exec> 08└─That was supposed to be funny, right? If so, I got it, but many here often don't grasp the subtle humor (which seems obvious to me).
[13:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:04] <exec> 08└─We know that will never happen, though, because AT&T, Comcast, Spectrum (formerly Time Warner), etc have all thoroughly bought and paid for the vast majority of congresscritters on both sides of the aisle. So they're perfectly happy with the "government pays up front, telecom never delivers" system....
[13:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:22] <exec> 08└─fustakrakich is the most prominent one. They showed up in force in this thread [soylentnews.org]. TL;DR Runaway posted some Russian propaganda "time line" for the Ukraine, I point out that it's propaganda, and drama ensues. That sort of thing seems to be quite common.
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[14:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:07] <exec> 08└─It's not a name, it's a rank. X Æ A-12 designates Supreme Emperor of the Martian colonies.
[14:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe this one will decide not to be an asshole to people.
[14:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:11] <exec> 08└─Slow News Day?
[14:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:13] <exec> 08└─The lulz are strong in this story. -- May you live in boring times.
[14:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:36] <exec> 08└─For better and worse, it'll be almost impossible to cancel SLS until it's flown a few missions. And it's not entirely clear that we should do so before there's a viable alternative.
[14:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:37] <exec> 08└─Takyon, our little insider trader and rocketmonger of a libertarian bent! May never you have to lift on a can built by the lowest bidder.
[14:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:53] <exec> 08└─I was wondering how it could possibly be rated "Informative" when it's a bunch of tongue-in-cheek nonsense...
[14:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone else has a tongue and a cheek in which to ensconce it?
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Power supplies are completely unnecessary, and are contraptions to boot!
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[15:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:56] <exec> 08└─A great power source to provide electricity to power this ion engine would be a gas turbine generator. It's lightweight and powerful which is ideal for an aircraft. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:57] <exec> 08└─"There is no need for fossil fuel with our design, and therefore, there is no carbon emission to cause greenhouse effects and global warming." [...] The researchers created a plasma jet by compressing air into high pressures and using a microwave to ionize the pressurized air stream.
[15:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:22] <exec> 08└─So tell the State the kid's name is "John", while calling him X Æ A-12 at home. Only friends and family need to know.
[15:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:47] <exec> 08└─Who would have though that Washington could not do even that?
[15:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:05] <exec> 08└─The maximal growth rate for humans is faster than you are supposing, but it *is* bounded by an exponential function. I suspect that the maximal growth rate would be one child per woman per 18 months between the ages of, say, 15 and 45. And all children surviving. That's not very realistic, but it i...
[15:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:56] <exec> 08└─That's some top shelf delusion - yes, Trump is guilty of plenty, but not of "russiagate" (which has certainly been a moving target over the years), at least as presented in the mainstream left media where no credible alternate opinions are ever presented. Alternate media is better. Cenk (host on The...
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[16:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:59] <exec> 08└─not being "pro fossil fuel" or such but the comparison is a bit ... uhm errr ... misleading? in a fossil fuel jet the energy source is both source of energy and thrust. burning spilled jet fuel on a concret slap doesn't give you thrust. you need a machinary (jet turbine) and a fuel source. for the j...
[16:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:26] <exec> 08└─photo of birth certificate would have sufficed (as proof). better start saving for that law suit in 18 years time for taking pictures -and/or- using private data / biometrics without consent ^_^
[16:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:27] <exec> 08└─No, not slow news day, just the upstart and ATK bots can't find enough bullshit sci-fantasy crap being spewed out of all the universities these days.
[16:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:38] <exec> 08└─i got a 3.6 Ghz hexacore (2011 socket t-hehehe), 16 Ram, 1080 Gtx and HTC vive so it should run ok but i was a bit put off by the required M$ tax (windblows X). will alynx also work on win7? also, god damn, we got that linux/debian based steamOS thing and i really thought that m$ making win7 obsolet...
[16:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:39] <exec> 08└─They say yes to Win7: https://steamcommunity.com [steamcommunity.com]
[16:22:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:06] <exec> 08└─You didn't read the title carefully enough, they're discussing irrigatation, for which their assumptions are accurate. If it was irrigation then that's another story. For those who don't know, irrigatation is the feeling you get when your boss comes up to you and begins a sentence with "Mmmmm, I'm g...
[16:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:14] <exec> 08└─between the ages of, say, 15
[16:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:16] <exec> 08└─Ok, for women who have kids every year from 15 to 45, I get a population double time of.... 5.08 years. Much higher than I was expecting. Every 18 months will be somewhat longer doubling time, but not 5 years longer methinks.
[16:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:19] <exec> 08└─Sigh, the online poly root solvers I'm using choke on degree 90 polynomials. Wimps. Here's the polynomial I'm presently trying to factor: x^90-x^60-x^57-x^54-x^51-x^48-x^45-x^42-x^39-x^36-x^33-x^30-x^27-x^24-x^21-x^18-x^15-x^12-x^9-x^6-x^3-1=0 Multiplication by x is a time step of half a year. Th...
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[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─Assuming equal numbers of women and men brings the doubling time to 6.61 years. 10 years doubling time might be about right for your version of the problem. The polynomial to factor is: 2x^90-x^60-x^57-x^54-x^51-x^48-x^45-x^42-x^39-x^36-x^33-x^30-x^27-x^24-x^21-x^18-x^15-x^12-x^9-x^6-x^3-1=0
[16:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:33] <exec> 08└─They wish! Can't be done. DRM simply does not work. Enforcing artificial scarcity through the law is also hopeless. Only thing that props copyright up now is the public's wishes that artists not starve, and a bit of inertia. Publishers have come close to losing that good will, with the RIAA pulling...
[16:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─He has, under live-streaming scrutiny, reproduced all of the scores that are claimed he faked (to within insignificant margins). He's capable, that's not under question. That, however, says nothing about whether he had the mad million point skillz at the time that was the record.
[16:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:40] <exec> 08└─Remember GOD made it all.
[16:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:15] <exec> 08└─Withhold evidence of what crime
[16:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:17] <exec> 08└─Starting to think most of the conservative users around here are Russian agents. Seems a little far fetched, but the alternative is that they're reaaaaallly fucking dumb. Like unimaginably dumb. Could that simply be the Fox News effect at work? Like, do their brains literally auto-filter out negativ...
[16:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:19] <exec> 08└─Hah, you're more likely a Russian shill than fusty. Not that I really think he isn't, but you have a habit of sticking to an agenda in the face easily verified reality. That is something the shills do, and your pattern of arguing seems to fit the bill. Perhaps you're just a brainwashed propaganda zo...
[16:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:21] <exec> 08└─Nothing says Russian shill like "well, in that case you should all kill each other" because while the sentiment "clean house of all corruption" sounds nice it is effectively just a way to kick of civil war. Khallow's posts have taken on a new angle, and I for one do not trust it. Most likely he proj...
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[17:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 1768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:05] <exec> 08└─Not arguing with all of your points. But this plasma jet IS producing thrust, but heating the air, using electricity as the energy source for the heat. It's not a cold plasma, nor is the plasma itself providing the thrust. So in an apples to apples comparison, it's exactly the same as a burning foss...
[17:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:07] <exec> 08└─They harness the power of viruses to provide thrust? Imagine a Boeing 737 Max powered with these... it'd be a toss up whether the viruses would kill you before the plane flew itself into the ground.
[17:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:35] <exec> 08└─Growing up rich makes that difficult.
[17:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:36] <exec> 08└─Sounds to me like the kid identifies as an attack helicopter, or perhaps a close air support fighter-bomber. Still a better option than identifying as a fag, though.
[17:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:38] <exec> 08└─Does not stop random AC's on the internet...
[17:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:41] <exec> 08└─Jealous of a Jew who married a Jew? I think not, even with all that fame and money. " B-b-but Ethanol, Grimes isn't Jewish!
[17:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:52] <exec> 08└─Personally the teleportation movement system drives me nuts and completely ruins the immersion.
[17:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:10] <exec> 08└─it doesn't matter because one of them is installed at the federal reserve building and powering printing presses there. in other (even more fake) news: coal has been found to be 4 times better suited for rechargable batteries then lithium "^_^
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─there's a kind of water right under our feet: unfortunatly it's black and mixed with carbon. however it is easy to liberate: just burn it and water, in form of steam is liberated. also the carbon, a most required building block for all life forms now is available for absorbtion in the surface biosph...
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─Goddamn, before you start your armchair anti-sciencing could you at least learn what the terms you are using MEAN first? Superexponential Growth (J-curves) [foresightguide.com]
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─Here is a tell for 'garbage news' in future could be up to The words 'future' and 'could be'. That means pretty much anything afterwords is usually pure speculation and most of the time total fantasy. This smells like someone fishing for funding.
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─Since I live right by what is easily the nation's largest supply of fresh water, the Great Lakes, I have a very different perspective. The main reason I can't walk from Ohio to Ontario directly is because of the Great Lakes Compact, a bi-national and multi-state/province government body that has con...
[17:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:54] <exec> 08└─Until you mention CHINA, then suddenly intellectual property rights become super important....
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[17:25:26] <exec> 08└─Trump thanks you for recognizing his bigly hoax.
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[18:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient River Systems on Mars Seen in Unparalleled Detail - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:02] <exec> 08└─Have they been able to locate the ancestral home of the Clintons?
[18:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:15] <exec> 08└─They stopped the virus there. We're the ones living in a nation of plague bearing morons.
[18:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:16] <exec> 08└─Your nation does indeed have no less than one obvious moron.
[18:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:49] <exec> 08└─Surprisingly, California only allows the 26 letters of the english alphabet, plus apostrophe and hyphens: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] So I suppose the birth certificate / legal records would render it: X A- That's if th...
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[18:21:50] <exec> 08└─You may be onto something there - the A-12 was the predecessor to the SR-71. Æ (Ash), is usually pronounced roughly along the lines of "eye", so "A.I.", which kinds makes sense for Musk, and I guess X is just, well, "X" - the variable or the chromosome, maybe? The poor child! I think they may be s...
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[19:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:13] <exec> 08└─In fairness, Wuhan scientists have proven success at reducing global fossil fuel usage.
[19:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:48] <exec> 08└─That name is designed to hack in to some future computer system, and get the kid into Harvard on a free ride. Just ask his cousin, Bobby Tables [xkcd.com].
[19:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─More surprising is that California has legislated English to be the official language of the state.
[19:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─Has anyone noticed that the only ones vying to prove how much smarter than everyone else they are, are the recently graduated Jews, from Unit 8200? Yes, I know, what about the Russians? Hate to tell you this - they are RUSSIAN Jews. Nobody else thinks it's OK to break into computers. Everyone else i...
[19:23:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 429 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:51] <exec> 08└─No, it shouldn't. Copyright infringement means that politically-connected corporations (the "copyright cartel" if you will) might make less money, and this is unacceptable in America, so these companies paid good money to the legislators in Congress to criminalize these actions and enact enormous pe...
[19:23:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─Ah. Right. So, the TL;DR might be: If you don't like it, buy your own congress.
[19:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 2073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:42] <exec> 08└─Absolutely worth asking questions about our lifestyle! Not pushing back, not even asking, is why we have the evils we call suburban sprawl, and many others. The changes I've seen just in my lifetime are astounding both in quantity and scope. Go back to 1900 or a bit more, perhaps the start of the In...
[19:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:18] <exec> 08└─With meetings being virtual via Zoom, now every day can be No Pants Day!
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[20:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:49] <exec> 08└─Feels like the same "news" stories keep getting posted over and over. It's like dejavu all over again. And again. It's like dejavu...
[20:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ancient River Systems on Mars Seen in Unparalleled Detail - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:59] <exec> 08└─Doesn't seem likely. It take high pressure to make liquid CO2, usually it just sublimes.
[20:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:15] <exec> 08└─And at thrusting things around.
[20:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, he filled in the form wrong. That's clearly not the name, it's the password. It's got alpha, numeric and non-alphanumeric characters in it. The kid's lucky he didn't end up being called Correct Horse Battery Staple.
[20:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:54] <exec> 08└─Frederick>Fred>Donald...nope all assholes. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
[20:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:24] <exec> 08└─Assuming SpaceX continues to demonstrate the success and efficiency it has shown so far, it will become impossible for NASA and Congress to ignore the elephant in the room. The price will force more and more government users (DoD, NOAA, etc) to buy from SpaceX. SLS simply won't have customers. The b...
[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:25] <exec> 08└─It's actually $26 million for each SLS rocket engine plus $120 million for locating the jobs in certain congress-critters districts. Bargain!
[20:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:28] <exec> 08└─>> like the cost of a Windows / Office license I prefer to view that cost as insurance against having to deal with SystemD.
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[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─You are both forgetting many important in human populations. First is that humans don't have distinct generations relative to their lifetime. They overlap to the point where a person can be alive and have grandchildren older than their children. Second is that humans have lived longer over time. Eac...
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[20:23:34] <exec> 08└─I asked a coworker and the term I was looking for was https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:23:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 285 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:53] <exec> 08└─Goes to show how screwed up our copyright system is when something like this comes up. Suspended sentence of 20 days in prison and confiscation of ill-gotten gains. Whereas in the USA, they'd be trying you for stupid amounts of money and you'd be lucky, if it wasn't decades in prison.
[20:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:13] <exec> 08└─China is going to use our own IP laws against us. Especially patents. We will come to regret our attempts to make China abide by our IP insanity. Especially software patents.
[20:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:14] <exec> 08└─The primary reason for textbooks to be available digitally is to keep them up to date. Printed textbooks, especially used ancient books from last semester, are too outdated to be suitable for use in education. Imagine the pandemonium if textbooks are not updated: Math textbooks: ch...
[20:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:22] <exec> 08└─I did see Space 1999. Once I saw Barbara Bain's acting, I then understood where they got the idea for Commander Data.
[20:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:03] <exec> 08└─I hadn't really inferred that from fustakrakich. I usually argue with him about the usefulness of voters in the US political system. I might need to read his comments with more care in future.:-) I am pretty sure those Emmanuel Goldsteins in Venezuela will wind up having been paid by somebody in th...
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[21:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:56] <exec> 08└─California passed this law with this lawsuit in mind. It was only a matter of time until this story occurred.
[21:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:58] <exec> 08└─And??? Do you self-identify as 'white'? Trace *your* bloodline back through Europe and inevitability you're Jewish at some point. We all are, thanks to greatgreatgrandpappy in the 11th century getting his leg over a village hottie.
[21:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:00] <exec> 08└─Cooral^H^H^H^H^H^HXooA dosh one two!
[21:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:02] <exec> 08└─Speakers of Xhosa should sue California for such a horribly racist law. How are they supposed to represent their true names without voiceless fricatives?
[21:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─Nah, man, that's clearly its position in the Centauri coordinate system, indicating the repository of its mind-soul. Or its gender. Pan-dimensional notation is so confusing.
[21:24:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:15] <exec> 08└─If only the Aaron Swartz case had been handled like this.
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[22:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails Linux 4.6 Released - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:52] <exec> 08└─So-called secure distro has telemetry feature called WhisperBack... if you send data quietly enough, the NSA won't hear it?
[22:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails Linux 4.6 Released - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:53] <exec> 08└─Wachoo talkin' 'bout Willis?
[22:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:03] <exec> 08└─Does the law apply to conventional taxi cab drivers for the taxi cab companies that have medallions? If not then why should taxi cab medallion owners be given an unfair advantage?
[22:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:05] <exec> 08└─You are going to lose at Supreme Court. The Constitution enshrines our right to exploit gig-econony workers, which is why they count as 3/5 of a person (Article 1, Section 2).
[22:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:08] <exec> 08└─It's pretty clear to me that gig workers are not employees: * Employees have work hours set by the employer. Gig workers work when they want. * Employees only use assets provided by the employer. Gig workers use their own cars. * Employees have insider trading restrictions. Gig workers (as far as I...
[22:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:32] <exec> 08└─You mock, but Wuhan University is a highly regarded institution. Their wrestling team, the Wuhan Cooties, regularly finishes in the top 5 nationally.
[22:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:33] <exec> 08└─Electric plasma turbine engines aren't a new idea. Microwave boosting one might be, but the core concept is decades old. The difficulty, as always, is finding an adequate source of electricity.
[22:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─Didn't stop Siddhārtha Gautama, otherwise known as the Buddha. He was born into a relatively rich family sheltered from real life.
[22:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:51] <exec> 08└─Shit! forced to mod you Insightful. Not sure what happened there. :-)
[22:23:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 961 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─Since I live right by what is easily the nation's largest supply of fresh water, the Great Lakes, I have a very different perspective. The main reason I can't walk from Ohio to Ontario directly is because of the Great Lakes Compact, a bi-national and multi-state/province government body that has con...
[22:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I can't be bothered to figure out which statements are in error in your link (which claims human population is a superexponential "j curve"), but human population growth is not superexponential for the reason I gave all along, that it is bound from above indefinitely by an exponential curve.
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─The main reason I can't walk from Ohio to Ontario directly is because of the Great Lakes Compact, a bi-national and multi-state/province government body that has consistently gone to bat to ensure that water isn't removed from the lake basin in the face of numerous proposals to do exactly that. With...
[22:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:26] <exec> 08└─You are both forgetting many important in human populations. First is that humans don't have distinct generations relative to their lifetime.
[22:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─Come to America and your side-channel attacks will be 20% faster than in Europe!
[22:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:45] <exec> 08└─you are = you're ≠ your
[22:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:47] <exec> 08└─The real crime is the mulcting of students with the typical educational textbook racket.
[22:25:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:58] <exec> 08└─If the eyes are rolling it's not considered a full stop, BTW.
[22:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:54] <exec> 08└─I vacillate back and forth
[22:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:31] <exec> 08└─I'm almost there! Pump jacks pumping back and forth, to and fro! Bring my oil to the surface!
[22:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:08] <exec> 08└─If you are using xterm, don't you have a clock in your WM? :) date is awesome. I just saw a toot on mastodon from the 2600 radioshow Off The Hook that they will be live at 19:00 EST. Oh, no what time is that? $ date -d '19:00 EST' Thu 7 May 02:00:00 CEST 2020 Oh why, thank you date! Guess I'll stay...
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[23:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:47] <exec> 08└─Never heard of him.
[23:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:48] <exec> 08└─He was the operator...
[23:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:51] <exec> 08└─Just one of the pioneers of electronic music. No one a philistine would care about.
[23:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:11] <exec> 08└─What *should* be done is to create a new category for gig workers that is in between independent contractor and employee, and regulate that new category appropriately.
[23:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient River Systems on Mars Seen in Unparalleled Detail - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:21] <exec> 08└─Are we certain they aren't canals? Asking for a friend.
[23:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─I agree that it would seem more realistic to use a thumb stick to move rather than teleport, but the teleport system has been shown to significantly reduce motion sickness in users vs traditional movement.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─>Nobody needs the heavy payloads of the SLS Not for current projects, but it makes industrializing space a LOT easier when your integrated machines and modules can be much larger. There's also a chicken-and-egg problem - nobody will *ever* need heavier launch capability than exists at the time, beca...
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:31] <exec> 08└─What you say it means is meaningless. For an exponential function (with higher exponent multiplier) would be "super-exponential" by the definition you give. Anyway, attempting to curve fit human population growth onto a simple curve is a fool's errand. There are different phases caused by different...
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[23:23:33] <exec> 08└─I didn't even get any text at the end of that link! However, with my novelty "Maths Professor" hat on, yup, you're right for a couple of reasons. It's possible to create a J-curve with superexponential features (e.g. abstract/imaginary things like equities/bitcoin value), but (a) it's not asymptotic...
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[23:24:14] <exec> 08└─If you went through all the trouble to air-gap the computer wouldn't it make sense to put it in a Faraday Cage as well? I wonder if it's possible to manipulate the power supply so that it drains the power in a patterned sequence that can then be used by someone monitoring the power to look for the s...
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