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[00:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:53] <exec> 08└─He invented Kraft Dinner.
[00:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:54] <exec> 08└─This is sad, but then yes he was also 73 years old and died of cancer -- a month ago. But in some kind of true Kraftwerk style news, and interviews, come out slowly and rarely. That said Kraftwerk has turned into something very sad, it's only Ralf that keeps it going. Every performance is now reall...
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[00:20:56] <exec> 08└─* Sigh * Millenials...
[00:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:58] <exec> 08└─Music. Non-stop. Techno Pop. Music. Non-stop. Techno Pop. Music. Non-stop. Techno Pop. Music. Non-stop. Techno Pop. Music. Non-stop. Techno Pop. "Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. " Music. Non-stop. Techno Pop. Music. Non-stop....
[00:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:19] <exec> 08└─I have no idea why they didn't just leave CA when this first came about.
[00:21:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Ancient River Systems on Mars Seen in Unparalleled Detail - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:29] <exec> 08└─Doesn't seem likely. It take high pressure to make liquid CO2, usually it just sublimes.
[00:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 410 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <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...
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[01:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hacker Buys Old Tesla Parts on eBay, Finds Them Full of User Data - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:54] <exec> 08└─so the people wiping out Teslas in firey crashes aren't overly trusting of 'auto-pilot', they are just ensuring privacy by wiping the data the 'proper' way [tvtropes.org]
[01:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hacker Buys Old Tesla Parts on eBay, Finds Them Full of User Data - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:55] <exec> 08└─Betcha some people would give gold for that.
[01:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Buys Old Tesla Parts on eBay, Finds Them Full of User Data - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:57] <exec> 08└─One percenters ride Harleys, not Teslas. And if you got one of their numbers or whatnot, would you want to rock up to a HAMC HQ and say "nyah nyah, I've got your personal data"?
[01:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Buys Old Tesla Parts on eBay, Finds Them Full of User Data - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:00] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I don't think the 1%ers are often found driving Teslas. Tesla drivers are almost certainly in the top 10%, and some of them might be top 5%. The 1% are jetting around in their private jets, or being chaufered around by POC, unless they pay for good European aristocracy butlers and such. If...
[01:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:13] <exec> 08└─of reading about these guys I learned about in high school, and are only a few years older than me, croaking. I may be in my 60s but I still see 16 y/o awkward me in the mirror every morning.
[01:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails Linux 4.6 Released - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:22] <exec> 08└─Let's just debunk this here and now: WhisperBack is their error reporting application See also https://tails.boum.org [boum.org]
[01:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient River Systems on Mars Seen in Unparalleled Detail - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, they are canals. The Jews enslaved the Martian people, and forced them to dig the canals. The Martians were worked to death, is why we aren't finding any Martians there now. Answering for an Ethanol Fueled friend.
[01:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:05] <exec> 08└─But that makes no sense, I'm not plague bearing yet.
[01:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:25] <exec> 08└─Also, that's just not relevant to when the SLS program was created - SpaceX was a fledgling company that had just barely managed a handful of orbital launches and wasn't really being taken seriously yet, Falcon Heavy was just a "future goal", and nobody else had reached orbit. The Space Shuttle was...
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[01:23:59] <exec> 08└─Here [rpi.edu] is a link that better explanation. But basically, the growth is super exponential because the exponential growth is also exponential. But don't expect them to change their mind or admit it if they do.
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[01:24:00] <exec> 08└─No, an exponential function with a big enough exponent wouldn't be super-exponential for the same reason that exponential functions aren't linear. They not only are in different forms, but the resulting functions have different properties.
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[02:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:09] <exec> 08└─I agree that youth is wasted on the young.
[02:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:10] <exec> 08└─I bought Autobahn second hand for about $1 in the early 1980's. Even though it was nearly 10 years old at the time it sounded way more modern and up-to-date than any of the rubbish being played on the radio at the time. Amazing album.
[02:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tails Linux 4.6 Released - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:21] <exec> 08└─And some idiot modded it Interesting. Sigh.
[02:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:35] <exec> 08└─Money.
[02:21:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion with Air Plasmas - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:58] <exec> 08└─They stopped the virus there. We're the ones living in a nation of plague bearing morons.
[02:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:27] <exec> 08└─A working Starship + SuperHeavy would hopefully deliver that miracle, but it doesn't seem realistic to expect a series of exploding pressure tanks to make quite such a compelling argument.
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[03:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Buys Old Tesla Parts on eBay, Finds Them Full of User Data - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:57] <exec> 08└─My Maserati does 185 / I lost my license, now I don't drive / I have a limo, ride in the back.
[03:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Buys Old Tesla Parts on eBay, Finds Them Full of User Data - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/27/how-much-you-have-to-earn-to-be-in-the-top-1percent-in-every-us-state.html [cnbc.com] To be among the top 1 percent of U.S. earners, a family needs an income of $421,926, a new report from the Economic Policy Institute finds. However, the threshold varies significantl...
[03:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:40] <exec> 08└─If the US had health care that is affordable-- none of that $6000 deductible crap-- it'd be one less distinction between contractors (on their own for insurance) and employees (might be covered by a company plan). But there's lots more. Contractors aren't eligible for unemployment. Work is "at will...
[03:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:08] <exec> 08└─Are you an RPI student?
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[04:20:55] <exec> 08└─1% is a much bigger club than the analogy is meant for. It just doesn't have the same metaphorical power saying the .1% club. Don't try and make metaphors match reality 110%.
[04:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Buys Old Tesla Parts on eBay, Finds Them Full of User Data - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:56] <exec> 08└─not cheap at all [aviationvoice.com]
[04:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:14] <exec> 08└─In that case, jump back to Runaway's birth-era, "Class of '55" reunited four of the real R&R pioneers, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins. They all recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis when Elvis walked in off the street https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:15] <exec> 08└─Life is wasted on the living.
[04:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:42] <exec> 08└─I don't think the qualities you mention are nearly as clear cut as you seem to think in how to define an employee. 1: Plenty of employers offer flexible hours. I myself have worked places where I could choose to start at 5am, or noon, or take a break in the middle of the day and resume work at 6pm....
[04:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:34] <exec> 08└─Not for current projects, but it makes industrializing space a LOT easier when your integrated machines and modules can be much larger.
[04:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:35] <exec> 08└─Also, that's just not relevant to when the SLS program was created
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[04:24:12] <exec> 08└─No, but their different colleges have put up a number of courses online over the years that I have used for other things. They are well-regarded, so I figured something from there would be taken more seriously than DeathMonkey's link.
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[05:21:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:12] <exec> 08└─Just one of the pioneers of electronic music. No one a philistine would care about.
[05:21:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:18] <exec> 08└─of reading about these guys I learned about in high school, and are only a few years older than me, croaking. I may be in my 60s but I still see 16 y/o awkward me in the mirror every morning.
[05:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:24] <exec> 08└─They had big hits with 99 luftballons and Du hast.
[05:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:17] <exec> 08└─SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS MINIMUM: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600 Memory: 12 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM
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[06:20:47] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QV_Telescopii [wikipedia.org]
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[06:21:53] <exec> 08└─In case you haven't worked it out yet, this is exactly why the USA doesn't have a decent healthcare system. Tying your health insurance to your employment limits your options and makes switching jobs much riskier. This puts power in the hands of employers and downwards pressure on wages. As long as...
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[07:20:58] <exec> 08└─Spacex has Fired Starship's Raptor Engine and the Vehicle Still Stands
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[08:20:47] <exec> 08└─Day 0: "Omg space is awesome. One day we're going to be on Mars and I can be part of the team making that dream happen!" Day 1000: *standing around guarding an oil well in the middle of nowhere, Mideastland.* "F M L"
[08:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Buys Old Tesla Parts on eBay, Finds Them Full of User Data - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:16] <exec> 08└─Very rich people have assets; they don't need income and probably want to avoid income to save on taxes.
[08:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:30] <exec> 08└─The Valve Index is (I think) the only VR headset with decent Linux support and according to this article [gamingonlinux.com] the native Linux version of Half Life: Alyx is on the way. Shame it wasn't available at launch but better late than never. The number of games that run flawlessly in Proton is...
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[09:20:56] <exec> 08└─Someone once said: "Don't died for your country, make the other bastard die for his". That's your cue Space Heros. Trump is re-opening the economy to where it belongs under the Trump banner. All stops out! Don't expect a pay rise, or a tax cut, or an interest rate reduction - there's nothing left in...
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[09:21:04] <exec> 08└─Great! All I need to figure out is how many hairs per mile per kilometer per dick length.
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[10:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:59] <exec> 08└─This will be for the forseeable future just a bunch of fucking POG nancies wearing blues as their daily uniform staring at screens. I want my asteroid deflection or destruction goddammit!
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[10:21:00] <exec> 08└─Warmongering mercenary private enterology bastards.
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[11:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:49] <exec> 08└─Didn't read the article but wondering what the impetus is to film in the ISS. It's a lot cheaper to film in an aircraft simulating 0G, like they did for Apollo 13.
[11:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:50] <exec> 08└─Flush the little turd out of one of the airlocks...let's really see his OT powers in action..
[11:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:01] <exec> 08└─It appears really briefly but yeah looks like it, a windowless Shuttle.
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[11:21:03] <exec> 08└─At least it's better than a shuttle running Windows.
[11:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex has Fired Starship's Raptor Engine and the Vehicle Still Stands - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:18] <exec> 08└─I took a look at the Twitter video and suddenly my phone blasted out the audio of some dudes creaming their pants laughing and carrying on about how it fired, including how it blocked out the lights. Why are all SpaceX videos filled with all these cheering tweens going mental when launch is successf...
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[12:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:42] <exec> 08└─Hmm, the average Japanese foodie has a power level high enough that these aren't a threat. It sounds like Americans need a training montage to learn the secret of the relevant forbidden technique.
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[12:20:43] <exec> 08└─anyone checked the stats on Washington to see if they are suddenly observing quarantine better?
[12:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:45] <exec> 08└─We've met a few of these in nature, and though they are gigantic, they will leave you alone if you leave them alone! There's nothing murderous in the encounter!
[12:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:55] <exec> 08└─Would whatever insurance company covers Cruise even allow that? Perhaps he would be to close to Xenu and the e-meters would break down.
[12:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:08] <exec> 08└─All navigation's mouse controlled! What's so bad with that? Sometimes they gnaw through the wires!
[12:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:09] <exec> 08└─"Service guarantees citizenship." What, you wanna live forever?
[12:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closest Black Hole to Earth Found "Hiding in Plain Sight" - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:19] <exec> 08└─I know it's a long shot (that anything will opportunistically align), but maybe they'll see gravitational lensing of stars and galaxies beyond our line-of-site. That would be very cool.
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[13:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:55] <exec> 08└─Oosuzume-bachi kill around 50 people a year in Japan. Some animals don't follow the "leave me alone and I won't kill you horribly" rule.
[13:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:56] <exec> 08└─Oosuzume-bachi kill around 50 people a year in Japan
[13:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:59] <exec> 08└─No, Americans provide necessary comic relief for the Japanese. Death-by-hornet is reserved for burakumin [wikipedia.org], hibakusha [wikipedia.org], non-conformists [masafumiotsuka.com], and people who blow their noses in public.
[13:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:01] <exec> 08└─Japanese foodies seek out murder hornet nests for snacks and cocktails, likely explaining the Oosuzume-bachi's bad attitude toward them. Snacking on and making cocktails from their family members doesn't exactly qualify as leaving them alone.
[13:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:11] <exec> 08└─Promotional value. I imagine they'd film token footage onboard the actual ISS, promote the hell out of that, and do the bulk of the work on soundstages constructed dirt-side. Space Center Houston has an "actual" shuttle cockpit that you can walk through - it's a really tight cramped space even if yo...
[13:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:13] <exec> 08└─Didn't read the article but wondering what the impetus is to film in the ISS.
[13:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:16] <exec> 08└─He is his own producer PRECISELY for this reason. Producer wont say no if you are the producer.
[13:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:18] <exec> 08└─But I do like his movies and it appears so do most other people https://www.rottentomatoes.com [rottentomatoes.com]
[13:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:20] <exec> 08└─It's too bad there are no giant inflatable modules at the ISS. Those could make filming a lot easier, and could be combined with green screens. Box office will have to overcome the price of getting Cruise and a couple crew members up there.
[13:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:35] <exec> 08└─I want my asteroid deflection or destruction goddammit!
[13:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:37] <exec> 08└─What's so bad with that?
[13:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spacex has Fired Starship's Raptor Engine and the Vehicle Still Stands - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:55] <exec> 08└─They seem so pro by comparison.
[13:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Buys Old Tesla Parts on eBay, Finds Them Full of User Data - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/you-wont-believe-cars-jeff-bezos-mark-zuckerberg-billionaires-drive [architecturaldigest.com] Cars of the 0.1%
[13:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:00] <exec> 08└─But there's lots more. Contractors aren't eligible for unemployment. Work is "at will", and they can be terminated instantly, with no reason given. They can't go to the state board of labor if the employer cheats them of pay or discriminates. They have to pay self-employment tax, which is a lot high...
[13:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:02] <exec> 08└─Flex hours doesn't allow you to just quit without warning for months and come back later. Uber driving does. Pizza delivery pays for miles when driving private vehicles. Insider trading? That's what you think defines an employee? Martha Stewart would like to have a word with you...
[13:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:04] <exec> 08└─Just because there is a new law, doesn't mean the law will last.
[13:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient River Systems on Mars Seen in Unparalleled Detail - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:16] <exec> 08└─It does prove John Carter failed to stop the Therns from murdering Dejah Thoris to prevent her mastering the ninth ray.
[13:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient River Systems on Mars Seen in Unparalleled Detail - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:17] <exec> 08└─I found a couple of references, one ancient: https://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com] and one fairly oblique: https://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] I guess the lack of stuff on the internet means that the CO2 theory...
[13:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:03] <exec> 08└─Yep, and it's just one political miracle away from being canceled. That's the problem with creating a cancel-proof project to withstand the normal political winds of changing administrations - it's also cancel-proof in the face of better options that develop independently.
[13:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:42] <exec> 08└─A few years ago, a municipality nearby to but not quite in the Great Lakes watershed wanted to use Great Lakes water for their municipal water supply, because their current one was drying up. However, the main reason their current supply was drying up was a bottled water plant had been expanding sub...
[13:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:44] <exec> 08└─But basically, the growth is super exponential because the exponential growth is also exponential.
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[14:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:59] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons I ♥ EU. And before all you zombies start talking about paying the bills and making money, let me tell you kids...I remember an internet that was ad-free. And I'm betting a good percentage of the (for lack of the proper term) people here do too.
[14:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:01] <exec> 08└─> and largely get away with it There's the problem right there.
[14:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:03] <exec> 08└─requires that they offer these visitors an easy way to opt in or out of this sort of on-page tech.
[14:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:06] <exec> 08└─My Internet is still pretty much ad-free.
[14:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:08] <exec> 08└─My personal favorite are items that use inconsistent phrasing and abnormal sentence logic to trick you in to staying with them. Then at the end, they have a "resubscribe" button that's the same color and placement as the "unsubscribe" button. So if you're clicking through fast, you sign back up for...
[14:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:10] <exec> 08└─It's even simpler. It should be opt-in only. Then they can put 1000s of switch-boxes if they want. Also no question should be asked twice. If I give an answer and change my mind later, it should be by my initiative to find where in the web page to change that answer.
[14:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:12] <exec> 08└─One site had a checkbox form where I had to remove consent from each item on their list - the list had 100's of items to uncheck. That, right there, is BS.
[14:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:14] <exec> 08└─By the time the page has loaded far enough to load the Cookie message, numerous requests have been made to numerous ad agencies and each HTTP/S request is sending cookies. I had to debug a slow page load and found a single tracking pixel that ran a bid system through many ad agencies including Googl...
[14:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:16] <exec> 08└─The wrong is on browsers mechanics and crappy protocols design. Web transfer logic has no proper topological closure. That leaves user vulnerable to unwanted information flow. A consistent page should never allow loading any of out-of-domain resources.
[14:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:19] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you are referring to adblock/ublock and noscript etc, but there is still a lot of sites (in number) that refuse to have ads. It is lot harder to find them as Google seems to promote the ad laden the highest. Hmmm, how could I make money on a search engine that only returns sites that hav...
[14:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:47] <exec> 08└─Sheeple are remarkably predictable, if you make a movie with stars X and Y in genre Z (and handle the promotion/timing well) the box office returns are equally predictable. I'm guessing the reason Cruise is cast for this role is because his personal fee is lower than Hanks' - Hanks would draw bigger...
[14:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:48] <exec> 08└─Counterpoint: Tom Cruise does his own stunts, if they sent Tom Hanks to the ISS they may also have to send a body double.
[14:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:06] <exec> 08└─I had a heck of a time finding the link in all those Independent links in the story, but for those who don't want to pull up TFA, I'm providing the link to the ad here [youtube.com].
[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex has Fired Starship's Raptor Engine and the Vehicle Still Stands - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:24] <exec> 08└─Strange isn't it? It's almost like having a big team of young, passionate people working on a game-changing project with minimal bureaucracy is more productive than a bunch of old men struggling to provide incremental advances under the weight of an immense government bureaucracy. But that can't pos...
[14:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:32] <exec> 08└─Sure, it's the way SpaceX does things, and I'm a big fan of their trial-and-error approach - but it doesn't inspire confidence that they'll actually manage to get Starship fully operational on schedule. Not to the levels necessary to swing a political miracle. There's a lot of innovation in Starship...
[14:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:34] <exec> 08└─I'd say that being cancel-proof is a problem in itself. Nobody ever bothers to make sensible programs cancel-proof. In space projects, it's always the white elephants that get this treatment.
[14:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:36] <exec> 08└─>NASA won't have the funds. NASA won't be the ones industrializing space. Of course, at SLS prices only the most ambitious of private interests will even consider it either. >No, they have! They have a single example of someone succeeding at small scales at much lower cost, for reasons they don't un...
[14:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:38] <exec> 08└─They have a single example of someone succeeding at small scales at much lower cost, for reasons they don't understand.
[14:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:40] <exec> 08└─aristarchus posted. Everyone looks a little smarter when cast against that shadow.
[14:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:20] <exec> 08└─and while that limited that company's profits it also protected the water supplies of millions of people.
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[15:21:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:05] <exec> 08└─The wrong is on browsers mechanics and crappy protocols design. Web transfer logic has no proper topological closure. That leaves user vulnerable to unwanted information flow. A consistent page should never allow loading any of out-of-domain resources.
[15:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:07] <exec> 08└─How many hoops did you have to jump through? Or do you have some magic browser that is just plug-and-play, so to speak, that returns your browsing experience to pre-Google 1990s-level tracking/spying/eternal cookies? Yeah, maybe I didn't express myself previously in the exacting terms needed to be "...
[15:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:09] <exec> 08└─A consistent page should never allow loading any of out-of-domain resources.
[15:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:11] <exec> 08└─You could put ads on your site?
[15:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:13] <exec> 08└─Well, I remember that too, but some people say I'm no good, so I can't be part of that good percentage . . . https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:16] <exec> 08└─A consistent page should never allow loading any of out-of-domain resources.
[15:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:18] <exec> 08└─Not true. A hyperlink is a transfer of location, and should not be misused as a transfer of data. Its meaning shall be "let's go there" and not "throw at me whatever you want".
[15:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:32] <exec> 08└─Chopsticks at the ready Daniel-san!
[15:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:33] <exec> 08└─They will clear out a hive of European honeybees. Still pretty bad in my book, considering how dependent the US agriculture is on the honeybee. I wonder if I could start a beehive of Japanese honeybees. I don't see much of an alternative if these wasps become established.
[15:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03StupendousMan [103] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closest Black Hole to Earth Found "Hiding in Plain Sight" - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:16] <exec> 08└─The star system in question, HR 6819, is "bright" according to astronomers -- who can achieve very high signal-to-noise ratios even when breaking the light up with a high-resolution spectrograph. However, it is "faint" in ordinary human terms: at magnitude V = 5.4 or so, it would be barely visible i...
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closest Black Hole to Earth Found "Hiding in Plain Sight" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─It is the first known black hole containing system that is visible to the naked eye. It remains to be seen just how close and "bright" they can get.
[15:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spacex has Fired Starship's Raptor Engine and the Vehicle Still Stands - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─But that can't possibly be right...
[15:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Sues Uber and Lyft, Alleging Drivers are Misclassified - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─The insider trading thing has no bearing on whether someone is considered an employee or not. Are you familiar with Martha Stewart's conviction for insider trading? She wasn't an employee of the company stock she sold. The person she got information from wasn't even an employee of the company either...
[15:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:37] <exec> 08└─>SpaceX already adapted. Yeah, but they were able to do so because they got lucky - someone noticed that some steels have a better strength-to-weight ratio than carbon fiber at cryogenic temperatures. If steel didn't happen to have those properties, or nobody noticed, there weren't a lot of other op...
[15:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:39] <exec> 08└─Well, before SpaceX, the space industry was pretty much *all* white elephants. The immense focused funding of the Apollo program had passed, which meant delivering similar funding took many more years - and that had opened the door to a track record of projects being cancelled for political reasons....
[15:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:41] <exec> 08└─The thing is, that study was published in 2011. The evidence was already building up when they started SLS. Even ten years earlier, we had the EELV (Evolutionary Expendable Launch Vehicle) program which consisted of the Atlas 5 and Delta IV. Even back then, we could have made things work with those...
[15:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─Yes - a study with a single data point about a fledgling space launch company that might have just gotten lucky. Very promising, but not necessarily relevant to short-term (less than a decade) goals. As for the rest - I won't argue there. When government bureaucracies get cozy with specific supplier...
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[16:20:58] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons I ♥ EU. And before all you zombies start talking about paying the bills and making money, let me tell you kids...I remember an internet that was ad-free. And I'm betting a good percentage of the (for lack of the proper term) people here do too.
[16:21:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 626 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:05] <exec> 08└─By the time the page has loaded far enough to load the Cookie message, numerous requests have been made to numerous ad agencies and each HTTP/S request is sending cookies. I had to debug a slow page load and found a single tracking pixel that ran a bid system through many ad agencies including Googl...
[16:21:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:14] <exec> 08└─Not true. A hyperlink is a transfer of location, and should not be misused as a transfer of data. Its meaning shall be "let's go there" and not "throw at me whatever you want".
[16:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:16] <exec> 08└─I remember that too, but some people say I'm no good, so I can't be part of that good percentage . . .
[16:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:18] <exec> 08└─Its meaning shall [sic] be "let's go there" and not "throw at me whatever you want".
[16:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:20] <exec> 08└─Need tracking consent? Oh, hey, I don't need your website. Oh, you really have my nuts in a vice? *sigh* fine, let me dig up that bootable CDROM ...
[16:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:22] <exec> 08└─It's not exactly going to be a fair fight. Even if you make it work, the bastards will come after you for screwing with "their money". This I think is how WW3 starts. The EU, trying to do the right thing, annoys too many people with too many rotten interests. Unfortunately including the USA which cu...
[16:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:25] <exec> 08└─Trust but verify?
[16:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:27] <exec> 08└─TrackMeNot, DeCentralEyes, and about 10 FF about:config hacks. Easy peasy. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:29] <exec> 08└─but . . . they're baked by little elves in a hollow tree!
[16:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:45] <exec> 08└─Tarantula hawks (worlds most painful sting) will paralyze the slanty eyed hornets, lay eggs in them, and eat them from the inside out while still alive.
[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:46] <exec> 08└─Japanese Honeybees have a devilish defense method, they cook the invaders alive. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:48] <exec> 08└─Compare with the Demon Locusts in Revelation 9:1-11. [biblegateway.com] That will be something to tweet about.
[16:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:05] <exec> 08└─… is almost certainly this is a project by Cruise/Wagner productions. In other words, if Tom Cruise wants to go to the ISS this is a way to accomplish that and let the company foot the bill as a business expense. Cruise/Wagner has taken in $2.9 billion in lifetime company revenue and has produced...
[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─I wanna be a R̶e̶c̶o̶n̶ Space Ranger, I like all that sex and danger
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─It could be worse than that: What if it's running Systemd?
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closest Black Hole to Earth Found "Hiding in Plain Sight" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─Hidden right in there, right in there. But nobody would look - LOOK!
[16:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─Bunsen Honeydew.
[16:26:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 1160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:55] <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...
[16:27:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dwilson [2599] 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 347 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:04] <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...
[16:27:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:12] <exec> 08└─Call me when they find out how to install malware on an air gapped machine remotely.
[16:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Sort of a wrench solution [xkcd.com]. Moderated that if it is indeed nation-state intelligence agency internal level security then it may be the only exploit possible, not unlike when the laser microphone [wikipedia.org] technique was developed.
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:30] <exec> 08└─My first college campus job in school, about 1989-1990, was for computing services and I was assigned in my second semester to a Mac lab of 30 Macs (maybe SE/30's?) They were networked for print services. One of the things we could do (it was pretty boring most of the time) was scan the computers f...
[16:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:32] <exec> 08└─Take it at a remove: It's probably easier to compromise the people operating that machine or those familiar with the inputs and outputs. Doesn't take just bruising, but finding out what the drivers are of those people and then offering to supply whatever they are lacking in that area (money, sex, ex...
[16:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OK, So You've Air-Gapped that PC. Now, about the Data-Leaking Power Supply Unit... - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:34] <exec> 08└─Adding to my above, it doesn't take finding out what the operator knows, although that may be an element of wind-up to develop a suitable acquisition package. It takes compromising the operator who is able to plug in a USB, or daisy chain in a SATA drive or custom card (if the machine has been proof...
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[17:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X-Rayed Artifacts from Famed Shipwreck Shed Light on Secrets of Tudor Armor - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:49] <exec> 08└─A chainmail of twisted brass rings?! Seriously?! Riveted steel rings were in use centuries before; welded iron rings, before AD, i.e. a millenium and a half before that time! https://sites.google.com [google.com] https://www.erikds.com [erikds.com] htt...
[17:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:20] <exec> 08└─Considering how much effort the ad industry is going through to circumvent the laws, it's clear that they know exactly what they're doing, have no qualms about doing so, and are just going to do more of the same even with the tightened up regulation. There is no law that can be circumvented, especia...
[17:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:21] <exec> 08└─oh yeah, thanks for saving me from my own freedom to make decisions. sycophantic slaves.
[17:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:24] <exec> 08└─Well done for supporting legislative overreach for a non-issue when the client side was already 100% under user control. The end result of this stupidity is that server-side geofencing is widely used to restrict access to connections from the EU, meaning people employed abroad or with dual citizensh...
[17:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:26] <exec> 08└─You've just illustrated my original point. And I made a big mistake in my previous comment: I meant to say "Non-trivial" and NOT "Not non-trivial," or as you said, "easy-peasy." Yes, I know DL'ing and installing an add-on isn't bricklaying, but it is a bunch of extra work that requires a modicum of...
[17:21:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:37] <exec> 08└─Oosuzume-bachi kill around 50 people a year in Japan. Some animals don't follow the "leave me alone and I won't kill you horribly" rule.
[17:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:47] <exec> 08└─Jesus who the hell made that clip - they think fighting bees needs jazzing up with epilepsy-inducing visual effects and music. https://youtu.be
[17:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:49] <exec> 08└─I've had the larvae before. Absolutely delicious. We got rid of the big guys by smoking them out and then grabbed the nest and BBQ'd the larvae. Looked really unappetizing but had an absolutely incredible smokey meaty flavor. Highly recommended. WSDA just wants all the tasties for themselves!
[17:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:52] <exec> 08└─You're a monster. But an apparently very useful monster, so more power (and larvae meals) to you.
[17:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:54] <exec> 08└─I've been running into reports of these murder hornets all week, and worse the pictures. I'm allergic to most bees/hornets/wasps and just their pictures give me the willies. The pictures of this damned thing from hell have kept me from sleeping much during the entire week. I propose we immediately n...
[17:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:11] <exec> 08└─However the time for zero-g porn is fast approaching...!
[17:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:13] <exec> 08└─It can be difficult at times to separate the artist from the work. Most actors these days I can't watch anymore, because of their various activism. This includes activism that I actually agree with. Case in point: Woody Harrelson, known for years for his marijuana activism. I don't disagree with tha...
[17:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:15] <exec> 08└─Damn, they're finally going to film all those Kirk/Spock slash fanfics.
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─Asteroid deflection is not part of the Mission. The prime directive is to put a little yellow patch of name-branding on something other people pay for.
[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tails Linux 4.6 Released - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─they don't explain anything about how it's supposedly "anonymous". i'm guessing it's filled with magical tor goodness.
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[18:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:50] <exec> 08└─> CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will forego his salary for the remainder of the year, Awww, poor baby, given that 4 months have been paid already, only makes 1/3 of $xxxmillion this year.
[18:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:51] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Khosrowshahi [wikipedia.org] He forfeited his un-vested stock options of Expedia, then worth $184 million, but Uber reportedly paid him over $200 million to take the CEO position.He also serves on Uber's board of directors.
[18:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:53] <exec> 08└─Your tax dollars at work: paying for ex-Uber employees to smoke weed and watch Netflix all day.
[18:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06X-Rayed Artifacts from Famed Shipwreck Shed Light on Secrets of Tudor Armor - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:03] <exec> 08└─What were the costs of steel, vs brass? Until firearms became commonplace, good brass was probably "good enough" for most people. And, when firearms did become commonplace, steel probably wouldn't have been a lot better than brass. Or grass, for that matter.
[18:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:37] <exec> 08└─Hear, Hear! Now I'm just repeating myself! Hehehe. But IMHO you're absolutely right! Eloquently put! Hear, he...oops.
[18:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:38] <exec> 08└─"The wrong is on browsers mechanics and crappy protocols design" There have been people saying that since the 90's, and it's true. People don't understand the value of what they've lost. I'm sure in China they already use cell phones to round up dissidents and stick them in concentration camps. Prob...
[18:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:40] <exec> 08└─I remember it too. Remember when Web Crawler and Ask Jeeves were the best searches available (there was a reason early Google took over... and I maintain an early Google would steal a large market share from modern Google with its bubbling and inconsistent search results...)? Remember when you follo...
[18:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:42] <exec> 08└─You think you are in control? Think again.
[18:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:44] <exec> 08└─While there are volumes and volumes of questionable laws and regulations on the books of every region on this planet, I respectfully submit that the subject at hand is not one of them. I don't want to be sold out and spied upon nine times over just to read an article on a website...but you do? Are r...
[18:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:47] <exec> 08└─Okay, Grey...move away slowly from the computer with your hands up... I will concede some of your points regarding "the big money;" I'm not that naive to think the infrastructure grew out of nothing. That said, at what point does the intrusion stop? I just want to read a recipe and not submit to a v...
[18:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:10] <exec> 08└─Likely it could be Wasabi. Once you acquire a taste for Wasabi, you can eat just about anything. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:31] <exec> 08└─Too many "E-meter" readings have over cooked his brain. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Space Force Debuts First Recruitment Ad and Previously Secret Spacecraft - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─I have to admit, if I were around high school age now, I'd be very interested in joining the Space Force. It's the fucking Space Force! And I would be just as cruelly disillusioned by the reality, too, if I'd joined. I worked as a civilian for the Air Force for a couple of years. Mundane and boring...
[18:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon and Grimes: Congratulations on Your New Baby Boy! (Can we Call Him a Muskmellon?) - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY [youtube.com]
[18:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aebonyne [5251] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Number of VR Headset Users on Steam Jumps with the Release of Half-Life: Alyx - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:56] <exec> 08└─According to GamingOnLinux [gamingonlinux.com] the current version is officially supported on Proton and native Linux support is in progress.
[18:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Pay a Staggering $146 Million for Each SLS Rocket Engine - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:35] <exec> 08└─TFA says that they will pay 1.79 Billion for another 18 engines, therefore at a single unit cost of $99,444,444.44. Yes, you can certainly take the $3.5 billion for 24 engines and come out at $146 million, but that is misleading when a considerable amount of that was startup development costs and th...
[18:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underestimation of Crop Irrigatation Increases Risks of Water Shortages - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:16] <exec> 08└─Thank you for that. My dad went to RPI and I've always found them to produce amazing people and research.
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[19:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah let them die on the street. I'm sure everyone will accept that peacefully.
[19:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:53] <exec> 08└─Interesting, from one branch of the travel industry (Expedia, online reservations) which is close to monopolizing that business*, and now at Uber, doing their best to monopolize taxi service. This guy is working hard to be one of the first against the wall.....but maybe the pandemic will save him fr...
[19:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:55] <exec> 08└─*snort*
[19:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:57] <exec> 08└─Your tax dollars at work: paying for ex-Uber employees to smoke weed and watch Netflix all day.
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X-Rayed Artifacts from Famed Shipwreck Shed Light on Secrets of Tudor Armor - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe they used brass because it wouldn't rust like iron? I don't know.
[19:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:48] <exec> 08└─Thank you, AC, for replying for me to the AC above you.
[19:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─I had to debug a slow page load and found a single tracking pixel that ran a bid system through many ad agencies including Google and Yahoo. Watching the traffic in a trace was mid blowing. 12 times it redirected and each time cookies were sent/received.
[19:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:51] <exec> 08└─Sadly, if there was ever a time for Cookie Monster to allegorically explain something to me, this is probably it.
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:54] <exec> 08└─Avoiding the argument by siding with an idiot who doesn't understand the difference between having control of your own affairs and permitting psychopaths to control you? More telling than you realize.
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[20:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:05] <exec> 08└─I still shake my head at how this scam has lasted so long.
[20:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:06] <exec> 08└─Build a house of cards, insure it with public money - profit! It's the capitalist dream.
[20:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:00] <exec> 08└─...says yet another psychopath looking to control me. Look, I've said what I've had to say. Entertain yourself by reading my other comments...or don't.
[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:25] <exec> 08└─I keep hearing that the Asian Giant Hornet isn't the same species as the Japanese Giant Hornet. What's coming to America is the less deadlier species from Asia, not Japan.
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[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─… is almost certainly this is a project by Cruise/Wagner productions. In other words, if Tom Cruise wants to go to the ISS this is a way to accomplish that and let the company foot the bill as a business expense. Cruise/Wagner has taken in $2.9 billion in lifetime company revenue and has produced...
[20:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─it's a way to restrain Tom Cruise compulsive couch jumping.
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[21:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:50] <exec> 08└─Is this the next Trump recommendation for warding off the evil, foreign-born coronavirus? Can you imagine these body-scanner-like ozone-booths placed outside Kroger's or Meijer's next to the hand sanitizer? It's getting so hard defending the short-fingered vulgarian these days. Good night, everybody...
[21:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:51] <exec> 08└─While I'm busy biting my tongue after watching that, I'll drop this article from 2010: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[21:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:54] <exec> 08└─If it works on the hands, let's use it on the whole body. You never can be too sure where germs might hide. This should be deployed to the entrances of supermarkets, government offices, temples, etc and give everyone a full body shock upon entering.
[21:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:56] <exec> 08└─I’ll drink a Corona to that!
[21:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:58] <exec> 08└─Hackaday becomes HackNDie
[21:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-found-in-semen-questions-of-sexual-transmission-2020-5 [businessinsider.com]
[21:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:02] <exec> 08└─Just be sure to breathe deeply, right at the coronal discharge.
[21:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:05] <exec> 08└─https://io9.gizmodo.com/make-your-own-dune-pain-box-1585770257 [gizmodo.com]
[21:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,700 People as its Ride Business Craters - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:20] <exec> 08└─If it isn't Dara screwing over the little guy or consolidating, it'd be someone else. I just find it interesting how the pandemic has seemingly derailed driverless plans [soylentnews.org]. Or maybe it will make the transition to "firing" all drivers more seamless, since rides will probably stay lowe...
[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─The thing is, ads are quite possible without darting and tagging you like a wild bear. There's no need for them to jump out at you from every corner.
[21:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:17] <exec> 08└─This. I remember well when the "ad industry" offered up Do Not Track, claiming most people didn't mind being tracked. It took about 2 months for every single web ad provider to break their promise when they saw how many people selected Do Not Track. Then, of course, there's all the drive by trojans...
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─It was probably unintentional, but did you really need to bring up the stinger control [youtube.com] debate here?
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03slashnot [8607] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─Ha, I was thinking the same thing about Xenu. Maybe Tom want to go to the ISS to look for the Douglas DC-8 airplanes from space [wikipedia.org].
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[22:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:58] <exec> 08└─I'm just responding to the summary, but that says that it kills bacteria, not that it deactivates viruses.
[22:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:59] <exec> 08└─Just tell him the electricity is special and has to come from coal-fired or petroleum-generated electricity, and he'll be totally behind it. Now with extra fracking!
[22:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:02] <exec> 08└─People who don't wear masks should have the 20,000 volts more directly applied.
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─Well the reason washing hands is recommended by health professionals is because the virus lives in the residual fats on your hands. Soap is a surfactant and releases the fat, so you flush away all the virus cells. I'd imagine some of the virus cells would be embedded within the fat layer and protect...
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wash" Your Hands with 20,000 Volts - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:06] <exec> 08└─Yep, an old friend used to comment on the copy room at the office (full of corona wires in the copy machines) -- "That nice fresh smell of ozone turns your lungs to leather." But it is kind of cool to think of fighting corona with corona... Kind of like the old Mad Magazine Spy vs. Spy.
[22:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06X-Rayed Artifacts from Famed Shipwreck Shed Light on Secrets of Tudor Armor - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:32] <exec> 08└─Cost would be my guess too. Until relatively recently the British Army was made up of regiments raised by individuals. For example The Royal Horse Guards [wikipedia.org] were orginally the Earl of Oxford's Regiment and the troopers would have supplied their own equipment, unless the Earl at the ti...
[22:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:20] <exec> 08└─Why am I looking to control you? If you want to believe the EU enacted GDPR for your benefit rather than to ringfence commerce and information, that's okay. It's okay to be wrong!
[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:21] <exec> 08└─"ringfence commerce and information" You'll have to provide better support for your argument than that.
[22:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:48] <exec> 08└─There's a video going around that shows a Preying Mantis putting a Murder Hornet in a bear hug and then eating out the Hornet brain. Graphic. Very satisfying to watch the large Hornet stinger wriggle around but never get close to the Mantis. Turns out N. America has a natural predator for this parti...
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Murder Hornet Munchies: the Horrifying Insect Makes a Tasty Treat - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:49] <exec> 08└─See note in another thread, Preying Mantis feeds on Murder Hornet brain. You are safe (at least it looks that way to me).
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[23:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Acquires Keybase to Bring End-to-End Encryption to Video Platform - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:38] <exec> 08└─All your base are belong to us.
[23:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Acquires Keybase to Bring End-to-End Encryption to Video Platform - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:39] <exec> 08└─Owning it and integrating it could be two different issues, it might be easier said then done and turn into some slow and bug ridden piece of crap. But perhaps that doesnt matter to them.
[23:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06X-Rayed Artifacts from Famed Shipwreck Shed Light on Secrets of Tudor Armor - 1513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:26] <exec> 08└─What advantage do steel or iron rings have over brass rings against firearms and crossbows (much less English longbows) that were in common use at this time? At this point in time, armor was becoming less useful against the weapons of war. It served a similar function as helmets and flak jackets did...
[23:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Authorities Ban Dirty Cookie Practices in GDPR Update - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:16] <exec> 08└─Not running ads on SoylentNews is one of the best decisions we ever made as a site, and one I'm happy remains possible. We're one of the very few places on the "modern" Internet where something like Ghostly reports zero. Even most modern one-man blogs either have ads, or trackers of some sorts.
[23:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Filming an Action Movie on the Space Station? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:08] <exec> 08└─Now, as for filming, modern imaging sensors can capture 120fps in higher than IMAX resolution from a unit smaller than your fist
[23:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73 - 2521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:28] <exec> 08└─I know this is an uncomfortable truth for many of you but Florian Schneider is currently burning in the fires of Hell. We can be quite confident that Florian Schneider is in Hell because he did not accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior before dying. We are all sinners and have fallen short of t...
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