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[00:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Tool Helps Distinguish the Cause of Blood Clots - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:05] <exec> 08└─Masks bad! Masks Good! Incubation period 3 days! Incubation period 3 months! Clothing stores closed! Pot shops open! Antibodies good! Disease never goes away! Herd immunity good! Antibodies don't work! Disease attacks lungs! No wait, disease attacks nuts! No wait, disease clots blood! No wait, disea...
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[00:45:31] <exec> 08└─We have always been at war with Euraisa... https://www.brainyquote.com [brainyquote.com]
[00:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants Partner Nations to Agree to "Artemis Accords" for Lunar Exploration - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:33] <exec> 08└─Just like that yes. I have read the article about the secret X-37B spaceplane too. Do as we say, not as we do.
[00:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants Partner Nations to Agree to "Artemis Accords" for Lunar Exploration - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:35] <exec> 08└─It Trump! There is only a view of open. He break it once there money for his pockets.
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[01:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06New Tool Helps Distinguish the Cause of Blood Clots - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:08] <exec> 08└─It only proves that you're an idiot.
[01:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Tool Helps Distinguish the Cause of Blood Clots - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:09] <exec> 08└─What about the Muslims and Japanese? Afraid to tell us their joint role because you're worried about al-jihadi ninja assassins?
[01:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants Partner Nations to Agree to "Artemis Accords" for Lunar Exploration - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:39] <exec> 08└─Again it’s Trump! He does not have a unique thought just the stupid name Space Force! It’s about space and a force. Surprised he did not rename the Army to Land Force and navy to water force. The marines will be a really hard one for him thought. We need the sphylis brained trirsnt out of off...
[01:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Longbow Arrows Caused Injuries Similar to Gunshot Wounds, Study Finds - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:52] <exec> 08└─a powerful medieval weapon said to be able to pierce an opponent's armor
[01:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will Feature Pike, Number One, and Spock - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:56] <exec> 08└─I know...what J. Michael Straczynski could have done with it now, though. But then again it would be different... So good, but wish for more, like Firefly: would love to see more or a remake but it would be different and probably worse..... ....it's like the original Doctor Who First Doctor episodes...
[01:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Failure to Delete Hate Speech Could Cost Facebook, Google Billions in France - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:26] <exec> 08└─I'm progressive! Censorship couldn't possibly affect me!
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[02:45:02] <exec> 08└─small, yet distinguishable changes in certain sensors that are found inside computers
[02:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware Attacks - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:04] <exec> 08└─Not really: "When attackers encrypt files, certain circuits inside the computer have specific types of power surges as files are scrambled. Computer sensors that measure temperature, power consumption, voltage levels, and other characteristics can detect these specific types of surges, SMU researche...
[02:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware Attacks - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:06] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. And how precisely is it going to tell the difference between encryption and say, compression? Pretty sure me running an "xz -9 -T0 disk.img" would look remarkably the same as if some malware was encrypting stuff as fast as it could.
[02:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Wants Partner Nations to Agree to "Artemis Accords" for Lunar Exploration - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:46] <exec> 08└─How does the X-37B violate the Artemis Accords? It's not a policy or plan, much less a nontransparent description of same. I find Fusty and your insinuation bizarre - "transparency" is mentioned. Some red herring is secret (and of course, not transparent). Therefore? The Artemis Accord doesn't impl...
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[02:47:05] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't hunt an elephant straight up. There's plenty of relatively low risk ways to kill large animals - drop them off a cliff or into a spiked pit, ambush with javelins and spears in a location that hinders mobility of the large animal far more than the person, or drop large things on them (log...
[02:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:07] <exec> 08└─Science will never succeed in raping women's precious bodily fluids. Have you ever seen a scientist drink a glass of water?
[02:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nine in Ten Biz Applications Harbor Out-of-Date, Unsupported, Insecure Open-Source Code, Study Shows - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:25] <exec> 08└─so, the register (suited whores) post a story written by Synopsis (slaveware shilling suited whores) about how other companies using open source (leaching suited whores) don't keep their shit up to date, and somehow it's open source's fault. fuck off.
[02:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Failure to Delete Hate Speech Could Cost Facebook, Google Billions in France - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:39] <exec> 08└─Oy vey, what a putz!
[02:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Failure to Delete Hate Speech Could Cost Facebook, Google Billions in France - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:40] <exec> 08└─Will Facebook or Google have the courage to just pull out of France?
[02:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boffins Grok Spread of Health Misinformation in Social Networks - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:51] <exec> 08└─Really? A Pulp Fiction reference [uberquotes.net]? Well done, other AC!
[02:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boffins Grok Spread of Health Misinformation in Social Networks - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:53] <exec> 08└─Several. First there was the Dark Ages - a long period of ignorance and superstition. Then along came the Renaissance and notions of liberty.
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[03:45:08] <exec> 08└─What BS, none of this is new. Firstly behaviour analysis of the "something is touching and fudging a bunch of your files" is not new. Secondly, Avast and AVG will alert you if an executable is not common and/or known to them. They don't work on a black-list only approach, they also check the SIG aga...
[03:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware Attacks - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:09] <exec> 08└─"When attackers encrypt files, certain circuits inside the computer have specific types of power surges as files are scrambled." Are those somehow different circuits then when users deliberately encrypt files? Frankly that sounds like bullshit. It might be BS from the source, or it might be journali...
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[03:45:20] <exec> 08└─asking for a friend
[03:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X-37B to Take Flight Sunday Morning - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:29] <exec> 08└─*swoons*
[03:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants Partner Nations to Agree to "Artemis Accords" for Lunar Exploration - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:53] <exec> 08└─NASA's running on the budget money allocated to them well before COVID-19 plunged the economy into a deep recession, eliminated a lot of businesses, ran unemployment to levels not seen since the Great Depression, and pushed a lot of people onto public benefits. If politicians are going to be investi...
[03:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:13] <exec> 08└─You find a "good meeting place", meet there, leave some injured with helpers. They build a shelter before the next time you show up. You figure a way to improve it a bit, leave some more people to be cared for, and leave them some supplies to encourage them. Repeat for a few centuries.
[03:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Combo of Fasting Plus Vitamin C is Effective for Hard-to-Treat Cancers, Study Shows - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, as soon as I saw "plant based" I was suspicious... lessee, cancers I know about that react well to fasting are actually starved by lack of glucose. What do you get from eating plants, which is to say, carbs? Glucose.
[03:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Failure to Delete Hate Speech Could Cost Facebook, Google Billions in France - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:45] <exec> 08└─What the heck is a "lime lizard" ?? how am I supposed to know if I should be offended or not when you use such obscure terminology??
[03:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Failure to Delete Hate Speech Could Cost Facebook, Google Billions in France - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:46] <exec> 08└─That's not a bug, it's a feature. If anything can be declared hateful, then no one dares speak, because anyone can be instantly criminalized at need.
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[04:45:13] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought also. Your encryption and compression, bad guy's encryption. How's a sensor to know the difference? I suppose if they can do it securely they could toss an alert up and you have to disable the software for a time period.
[04:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware Attacks - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:15] <exec> 08└─>Are those somehow different circuits then when users deliberately encrypt files? Probably not - but if you don't normally encrypt your files (which is probably by far the norm), being prompted to disallow file system changes in response to any sustained any surge of encryption activity probably goe...
[04:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware Attacks - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:17] <exec> 08└─*Incremental* backups, with history. Simple backups will happily overwrite all your valid files with their newly updated encrypted versions, so provide almost no protection against ransomware.
[04:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants Partner Nations to Agree to "Artemis Accords" for Lunar Exploration - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:01] <exec> 08└─Since the US has already withdrawn from binding international treaties, why would anyone sign up to a non-binding agreement coming from the US? If they won't honour binding treaties they sure as heck won't honour some voluntary feel-good agreement.
[04:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:24] <exec> 08└─Please note that modern hunter-gatherers live in the most hostile environments that even our state of the art technology finds difficult to use. 50000 years ago some of them had the best lands and probably worked 2 hours per week at most.
[04:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:25] <exec> 08└─Elephants are used by humans for thousands of years. Unfortunately it is not economically feasible to grow an elephant. Most of them are captured and then trained. Once again - captured wild and trained. Killing one is nothing compared to that and the fact that an average teenager can't do it only s...
[04:47:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Captival [6866] 02 - 06Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will Feature Pike, Number One, and Spock - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:57] <exec> 08└─is the guy who fucked the Batman franchise with that godawful Batman and Robin. He also made A Time To Kill, "Nominated- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million". Then once again: Transformers: The Last Knight - Nominated- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay...
[04:48:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will Feature Pike, Number One, and Spock - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:06] <exec> 08└─A better investment in new Star Trek series would be to fund the people who produced the fan episodes [youtube.com] a few years back. They were pitch perfect. That's the Trek I'd like to see.
[04:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Having a Chat about SoylentNews' Internet Relay Chat - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:47] <exec> 08└─Tried to use Riot.im for comms during the COVID-19 lock-down in my country. It was painful to say the least. Maybe the freebie infrastructure was overloaded but I would set up my own room then could not invite another new user to it, and the other users could not see my room. Got it to work eventual...
[04:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Postal Service Delays Next-Generation Delivery Vehicles -- Again - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:13] <exec> 08└─Why not outsource it and get something like a Paxster [paxster.no]? We've been using these here for years for all our mail delivery, they're great little vehicles.
[04:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Know the Nukes Still Work? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:41] <exec> 08└─Not in a religious sense, though they sure do like to borrow religious elements, what with all the "don't look at Dear Leader's portrait or you'll go blind!" bullshit. You know, all these arguments you're throwing at me are backfiring. You might want to consider a bit longer before you type stuff li...
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[05:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:12] <exec> 08└─I just want to emphasize that this is and was only an issue because people refuse to think for themselves. The utility (and necessity) of masks was incredibly obvious to anybody who actually took even the slightest of self initiative. In areas where the virus took a relatively smaller toll (such as...
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[05:45:13] <exec> 08└─The cognitive dissonance is strong. Because Joe Sixpack does not want to get Corona is a pretty damn good reason to wear a mask. The government trying to take measures to ensure medical workers have enough is one thing, actively lying to society and putting their health at risk is something entirely...
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[05:45:15] <exec> 08└─Joe Sixpack, here at least, is past fearmongering bullshit and now believes that "if you're not dead yet, then you don't need no steenkin mask" and I agree with that sentiment.
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[05:45:17] <exec> 08└─We miss you Terry Davis.
[05:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:20] <exec> 08└─Personally, I still have to decide whether orange man is somle kind of opposition to the mondialists or the preconceived synthesis that normal people will be drawn to when the bad commies scares them enough. In my country, the government is unhinged (Conte selling out to gates and the EU, letting ma...
[05:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Tool Helps Distinguish the Cause of Blood Clots - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:45] <exec> 08└─Because if it doesn’t use AI and have SYNERGY, it’s useless.
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[05:45:47] <exec> 08└─I already got it and beat it. The day after my last day working for Boston Dynamics, I went to a concert in an enclosed venue in which a lot of people were coughing. This was in early November, which supports the more conspiratorial theories about the disease taking off in September of last year. A...
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[05:47:47] <exec> 08└─I suspect the idea of mammoth hunting is a "man the mighty hunter" myth, concocted by macho men who like to think their ancestors were the meanest, toughest, and most fit of all animals in Stone Age times, the apex predator. They probably could kill mammoths, with traps, long range weapons, and perh...
[05:47:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Nine in Ten Biz Applications Harbor Out-of-Date, Unsupported, Insecure Open-Source Code, Study Shows - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:56] <exec> 08└─if your banking website is secured using an open-source MD5 hash function, then you have bigger problems
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[05:48:07] <exec> 08└─Also, this is the commercial world, with contracts and SLAs and support requirements. You can't just swap out a software component because it's newer and shinier, you have to do things under very carefully controlled conditions during service windows, with months or possibly years of advance plannin...
[05:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will Feature Pike, Number One, and Spock - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:50] <exec> 08└─I haven't finished season 2 yet but I wholeheartedly agree with this. "It's more Trek than Discovery" is exactly how I sold it to people when S1 was airing. For several episodes they were clearly trying to find the balance between comedic parody and serious homage but it's still a better showing tha...
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[05:52:14] <exec> 08└─Those "features" you mentioned are already supported in many IRC servers and clients already. The ops, IRCops, and admins usually turn them off so random clients are supported and to cut down on spam/exploits.
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[06:45:12] <exec> 08└─Fact is, there is no reason for Joe Sixpack to wear an N95 mask.
[06:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:13] <exec> 08└─The only point that I'm going to raise: The OP said "N95" masks -- not ye 'ole common cloth mask, which will keep droplets from spreading as you say, and is viable for joe six-pack. The common cloth masks are _not_ viable for health care workers, and so there's a clear priority.
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[06:45:28] <exec> 08└─Additionally, people who do encryption and compression tend to use common COTS software to do so. Maybe 2 dozen products in your whitelist signatures and most people are set. All you need to do is Detect -> Lockdown -> Verify -> Prompt if necessary. When someone says the activity is ok, then you can...
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[06:47:40] <exec> 08└─The opening scene of Far Cry Primal [wikipedia.org] shows one possibility: https://youtu.be [youtu.be] That is a fun game, btw.
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[06:48:00] <exec> 08└─Our legal department checks the entirety of the software that even touches our product or the machines it is made on. Because most licenses used anymore are standardized, you just have to look at it once to decide whether you like the terms or not. Then use the publicly available tools to track your...
[06:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will Feature Pike, Number One, and Spock - 1753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:43] <exec> 08└─Basically it got a lot better when Manny Coto took over as showrunner. As much hate as Rick Berman got, I would happily take Berman Trek over anything with Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman. But just like TNG failed at trying to recreate TOS, Berman failed at trying to recreate TNG -- first in the De...
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[06:48:45] <exec> 08└─Janeway would have been much worse if the role hadn't been recast and given to Kate Mulgrew. See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]. Mulgrew did a pretty good job with a poorly-written character. I definitely would have enjoyed seeing Commander Shelby have a few...
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[06:48:47] <exec> 08└─The instrumental version was used in all seasons for the closing credits.
[06:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Postal Service Delays Next-Generation Delivery Vehicles -- Again - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:33] <exec> 08└─They have to park them somewhere at night.
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[07:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:00] <exec> 08└─You could get a really nice actual desktop for work and gaming, plus a decent lightweight laptop or tablet with good battery life for portable things. How many people really just have to play RDR2 at maximum detail in a hotel room?
[07:45:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:14] <exec> 08└─Fact is, there is no reason for Joe Sixpack to wear an N95 mask.
[07:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will Feature Pike, Number One, and Spock - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think the OP means the same thing as you do when you speak about "woke culture".
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[08:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:13] <exec> 08└─I found the single most interesting piece on the topic was the paper "An epidemiological investigation of 2019 novel coronavirus diseases through aerosol-borne transmission by public transport" by Kai-wei, Zheng et. al. (2020-03-05) English sum-up in the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk
[08:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:15] <exec> 08└─I do miss him. I bet he would have called me "niggerlicious".
[08:46:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06NASA Wants Partner Nations to Agree to "Artemis Accords" for Lunar Exploration - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:15] <exec> 08└─Since the US has already withdrawn from binding international treaties, why would anyone sign up to a non-binding agreement coming from the US? If they won't honour binding treaties they sure as heck won't honour some voluntary feel-good agreement.
[08:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ALGOL 60 at 60: The Greatest Computer Language You've (Probably) Never Used - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:27] <exec> 08└─I don't know if the original Pascal was ever implemented on a system with graphics abilities. Standard Pascal implementations were exceptionally rare; almost every implementation deviated in significant ways. In particular, useful but missing functionality was always added. For example, standard Pas...
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[08:49:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, FORTRANS's COMMON blocks got a worse reputation than they deserved. Their main problem was the missing type safety, but that problem was shared by everything passed between functions in FORTRAN. But COMMON blocks were superior to global variables in one important respect: You only had to look...
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[09:45:05] <exec> 08└─Intel. Stoped reading. Anything that Shintel does has a performance cut in the long run, Specter et. al. And don't get me into the baked in hardware spyware. And yes, AMD has the same problems. But with minor gravity, not as greatly affected by mitigations and are willing, at least, to discuse the b...
[09:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is that people really want easy answers. "Yes mask" or "no mask." They don't really care or understand there are different requirements if you are outside, in a store, at the barber, etc. or if there are different requirements there is or isn't community spread or whether they are social...
[09:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:24] <exec> 08└─I only read TFS, but I'm not really seeing the problem.
[09:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:26] <exec> 08└─> Discouraging this, in hopes of preventing hoarding makes perfect sense. Lying about the efficacy of facemask, convincing them through propaganda (MSM supported) that a preventative measure does not make any sense. At worst it is mass manslaughter, as thousands more die when the infection rate coul...
[09:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Failure to Delete Hate Speech Could Cost Facebook, Google Billions in France - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:40] <exec> 08└─Course not. The progressives aren't alt.
[09:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Failure to Delete Hate Speech Could Cost Facebook, Google Billions in France - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:41] <exec> 08└─I don't think the EU will cut themselves off the US Internet.
[09:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Failure to Delete Hate Speech Could Cost Facebook, Google Billions in France - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:44] <exec> 08└─Nope. Hate speech ban coming soon in US.
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[10:45:06] <exec> 08└─Zen 3 or Zen 4?
[10:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:07] <exec> 08└─There are people who will do just that, game in a hotel room, but not many. Crank down settings to something like 720p medium, and there are some good laptop APUs + discrete that can do that. Hook it up to the TV, use a wireless controller from the bed, and can you really tell the difference? The Al...
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[10:45:09] <exec> 08└─None, I did I bit a digging and this was the "discussion" it's almost comical. https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] We really need an alternative to the state backed duopoly. Oh, and no chinese state backed "alternative" please. Fr...
[10:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:29] <exec> 08└─Look what happened to active cases in Austria when mask wearing was made mandatory in early April: this is what made Germany follow suit. https://www.worldometers.info [worldometers.info]
[10:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nine in Ten Biz Applications Harbor Out-of-Date, Unsupported, Insecure Open-Source Code, Study Shows - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:15] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you are saying *except*, the problem is that some don't even perform the most cursory of code audits. Or, security audits on methods/codeflow. So sure, some things are used in such a way, that it is irrelevant what its age is. Yet... I often get people defending that act, *after* t...
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[11:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:04] <exec> 08└─Fun guy! But, as built, it can't bend notes. Isn't that part of the point of using fingers on fretboard?
[11:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:16] <exec> 08└─I misread ARM as AMD. You should just use ARM-based SBCs until a RISC-V alternative comes out.
[11:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:18] <exec> 08└─. This means that a 10th-gen Intel CPU will not physically fit into the last-gen socket on the motherboard; the new chips have 1,200 pins where the older ones have 1,151 pins.
[11:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:39] <exec> 08└─Another relevant factor, have you ever tried to wear an N95 mask while doing anything but sitting absolutely still? My step-mother the RN can only go about half an hour max in one before she gets too lightheaded to safely treat patients. I can only manage about ten minutes in one doing light work at...
[11:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:41] <exec> 08└─Some clarifications/comments: ...Conte selling out to gates and the EU...
[11:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Longbow Arrows Caused Injuries Similar to Gunshot Wounds, Study Finds - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:58] <exec> 08└─I'd have to go through the boxes of books in the loft for an exact reference, but the shape of the arrowheads they're using is wrong, despite what they say about historical accuracy. The English first ran into the longbow they then later adopted as their own when they invaded Wales (Agincourt? Welsh...
[11:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Postal Service Delays Next-Generation Delivery Vehicles -- Again - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:14] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that Paxster could bid for the USPS contract. But I think they would lose because the vehicle doesn't meet US motor vehicle regulations. Also, USA has lots of suburbs with longer routes, not just city and rural, so the task may be different?
[11:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Postal Service Delays Next-Generation Delivery Vehicles -- Again - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:15] <exec> 08└─Yes they have to park them somewhere at night...but it may be rare to have an electric power substation conveniently next to the Post Office parking lot?
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[12:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Evidence Shows Giant Meteorite Impacts Formed Parts of the Moon's Crust - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:59] <exec> 08└─These "scientists" expect us to believe there are meteorites made of green cheese? As if.
[12:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:08] <exec> 08└─There's a huge number of other performances of the Marble Machine song on Youtube, everything from full orchestras to the Domtoren carillon.
[12:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:10] <exec> 08└─Easy fix, just add something to vary the tension of the string.
[12:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:46] <exec> 08└─I can only speak for myself, but I'm willing to bet there's a contingent here that is so happy to hear you say that. I'm (we're) just waiting for you to put your money where your large mouth is. Remember to breathe deeply, then convene only with like-minded individuals in some secluded area.
[12:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:48] <exec> 08└─The government wants to create two sets of information. One set for the poor and one set for the elite. Just like we have two sets of laws. One set for the poor and one for the elite. The poor is subject tot he PDT rule. Not the elite. The poor can't invest using peerstreet. The rich can.
[12:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:50] <exec> 08└─Fact is, there is no reason for Joe Sixpack to wear an N95 mask.
[12:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:52] <exec> 08└─My step-mother the RN can only go about half an hour max in one before she gets too lightheaded to safely treat patients.
[12:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:23] <exec> 08└─"Elephants are used by humans for thousands of years." For about 4k years, yes. Smaller Indian elephants have been captured and trained on occasion, since about that long ago. Göbekli Tepe is 12k years old, however, and 8k years later, about the same time the very first Mahout was riding the very f...
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[12:48:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it looks like a fun game. But think about that scene as it played out there even. The mammoth is unrealistically easy, repeatedly turning away and running into barriers while it takes projectile after projectile, only occasionally turning around and rushing an attacker, then again turning it's...
[12:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:26] <exec> 08└─It is about that unlikely, thus the mystery.
[12:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nine in Ten Biz Applications Harbor Out-of-Date, Unsupported, Insecure Open-Source Code, Study Shows - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:48] <exec> 08└─The most secure program of all time was placed in a special folder, on web server, secured with the password "password". So now it isn't.
[12:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will Feature Pike, Number One, and Spock - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:36] <exec> 08└─Fired up an episode in the middle of the last season to check before I posted that. Vocals remain through the whole thing.
[12:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will Feature Pike, Number One, and Spock - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:37] <exec> 08└─You forgot the bit where the Federation are authoritarian douchebags. You can live in peace and harmony in their technotopia but only if you do so how they say you must. And even if you've no allegiance to their flag at all, they're more than happy to interfere with your shit.
[12:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Postal Service Delays Next-Generation Delivery Vehicles -- Again - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, sure, they're only used in cities, or at least places with a decent enough population density to make it worthwhile, it's an 80:20 solution. Not sure how they dealt with the road regulations, possibly they're classed as mobility scooters or something. I'm pretty sure a law change wasn't required...
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[13:45:02] <exec> 08└─Canada only just discovered our moon a few years ago, they'll catch up soon.
[13:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:51] <exec> 08└─Please see Comment 995320. [soylentnews.org]
[13:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:53] <exec> 08└─This comment deserves a standing ovulation.
[13:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:55] <exec> 08└─RIP Terry Davis Thou shall not litter!
[13:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:57] <exec> 08└─This "whistleblowing" sounds more like sour grapes.
[13:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:59] <exec> 08└─N95 masks are not standard-wear equipment in medicine. They do not use any mask at all without reason and do not use N95 masks except when absolutely necessary. Even right now, nobody in the Mayo network wears an N95 mask unless they are actively treating a confirmed covid-19 case right at that mome...
[13:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:02] <exec> 08└─In areas where the virus took a relatively smaller toll (such as Asia) masks are ubiquitous
[13:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:04] <exec> 08└─They do in fact catch any viral load being carried by spit particles, which is the primary worry. Shooting out the sides (and having to hit your face to do so) though is still a whole lot better than going directly where you've got your cock-socket pointed.
[13:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:06] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link, great site. I like this quote from an analysis of NYC data: So far there has been 1 death every 1,166 people under 65 years old (compared to 1 death every 358 people in the general population). And 89% of the times, the person who died had one or more underlying medical conditio...
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[13:46:08] <exec> 08└─It's not that the poor are targeted, it's that they (our elected leadership) have got a mindset that protection of "key people" will benefit everyone more. Granted, the poor are rarely "key people," the whole concept of eliteism is generally misguided, and the idea that you can keep a secret in toda...
[13:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tool Helps Distinguish the Cause of Blood Clots - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:37] <exec> 08└─AI: check Chinese authors: check UCLA: check If you step into any random dept you will see the same thing. Shitty AI done by weak foreign grad students who hack downloaded code with hard-coded parameters until they get 1 example that works. The professor - obviously doesn't know his shit - presses t...
[13:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tool Helps Distinguish the Cause of Blood Clots - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:38] <exec> 08└─"New Tool Helps Distinguish the Cause of Blood Clots" Not even slightly. More like: Not very new CNN trained to recognize features just like it was designed to do 20 years ago. Kind of works in one small dataset. More data needed - or better yet, license my patent and take this creaky junk that does...
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[13:48:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think you're right. People feel it's more flattering to imagine their ancestors hunting the very biggest game, rather than the more realistic scenario of them preferring to hunt less dangerous prey, and scavenge anything else they can. "They probably could kill mammoths, with traps, long rang...
[13:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:45] <exec> 08└─It's not scavenging, but trapping. Trapping is a great way to win game because it works when you're not there, unlike spearing, clubbing, or shooting something. Modern folks seldom think of trapping because most states outlaw it, but primitive peoples built weirs, operated buffalo jumps, deadfalls,...
[13:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe. It's sort of an overworn cliché at this point, that any ancient artifact for which we don't immediately recognize a practical purpose today must have spiritual significance. But how do you prove that? Or disprove it?
[13:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:49] <exec> 08└─"Göbekli Tepe has carved stone stelae with totemic images in large structures that show geometrical placement." Sure, but that proves nothing about religion or spirituality. Maybe it was simply a map of the surrounding territory, for instance. We just don't know and can't know the exact significanc...
[13:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will Feature Pike, Number One, and Spock - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:01] <exec> 08└─Me, too, Gaaark, but I suspect we (or those like us) have to be the ones to write it. There is not much appetite for good storytelling in the entertainment industry anymore, because they have been overwhelmed by the conviction that they need to teach the rest of us a lesson of some kind. Firefly and...
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[13:50:03] <exec> 08└─Those are a bunch of really good points, but I think in that there is a larger lesson. Babylon 5 did have those elements, but it wasn't about those elements. The purpose of the story was not to rub the audience's nose in how bigoted and backward they were. In other words, it was good science fiction...
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[14:45:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:40] <exec> 08└─The cognitive dissonance is strong. Because Joe Sixpack does not want to get Corona is a pretty damn good reason to wear a mask. The government trying to take measures to ensure medical workers have enough is one thing, actively lying to society and putting their health at risk is something entirely...
[14:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:08] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'm taking what I consider to be an exceptionally childish - yet effective - approach to "dealing with" the orange man. I ignore him whenever and wherever possible, and subtly belittle and ridicule those who extole his virtues. The Trump "supporters" I know aren't even offended when you...
[14:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─Because Joe Sixpack does not want to get Corona is a pretty damn good reason to wear a mask.
[14:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:11] <exec> 08└─Below, some AC cited the reversal of COVID-19 in Austria post mask mandate... I feel that those results are likely more correlation than causation, meaning: the masks aren't the main factor keeping the people safer from infection, it's the behavioral changes that the mask mandate brought about that...
[14:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:13] <exec> 08└─I'm with you, and I will note that NOBODY is wearing masks in the liquor stores around here.
[14:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:15] <exec> 08└─That's nice, but wrong. There's no way any measure can have an effect on events 5 days earlier. For most measures, the expected delay time is two weeks (spread time, incubation time, symptom appearance time, time to take it seriously enough to get tested, time to get registered as a statistic). So t...
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[14:46:18] <exec> 08└─Next we really should put out a bunch of "credible science" proving that fast food is a nutritious healthy diet, for the good of the economy, eh?
[14:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:20] <exec> 08└─Lets say your two sets of information theory is correct. Maybe rich and poor, but certainly healthcare workers and general public. As bad as that is, it is minor compared to how it shows the ability of the government to think through the consequences of their actions. There are two basic operational...
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[15:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unexpected Brain Strategy Links Two Events Separated by Time - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:58] <exec> 08└─...seeing even patterns that don't actually exist.
[15:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unexpected Brain Strategy Links Two Events Separated by Time - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:00] <exec> 08└─Perhaps time is an illusion that brain sometimes can avoid.
[15:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Evidence Shows Giant Meteorite Impacts Formed Parts of the Moon's Crust - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:11] <exec> 08└─Soon they may discover craters.
[15:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:20] <exec> 08└─I first heard about this guy at the Museum of Autonomous Design in Stratford Upon Avon (the Shakespeare place). They have a whole load of other crazy stuff there. This one seems appropriate to the SN crowd (kafka's head): https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:35] <exec> 08└─pin is curve?
[15:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:37] <exec> 08└─You can have an ARM desktop today. Just buy a Raspberry Pi, and install your favorite ARM-supported Linux distro on it, or just use stock Raspbian. The Pi4 is powerful enough that you can run a modern web browser at non-glacial speeds. The Pi3 struggles with that, but can do most anything else. You...
[15:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:39] <exec> 08└─The pin counts keep going up as more and more things keep getting integrated into the CPU's, like memory controllers, GPU's, PCIe support, etc. Also, as (peak) power consumption goes up, so does the pin count as many pins are just for supplying current. Some of the recent AMD sockets have pins count...
[15:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:22] <exec> 08└─EF doesn't have enough money to do that.
[15:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:02] <exec> 08└─So much hot air out of a talking body part. Maybe try using the body part between your ears next time.
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[16:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:58] <exec> 08└─First, I’ll say that we don’t know much at this time about the COVID-19 virus. From what I read, people that had the infection could be reinfected, which would speak against a vaccine or “herd immunity” much touted by different governments and/or scientists. See: Risk of reactivation or rei...
[16:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Evidence Shows Giant Meteorite Impacts Formed Parts of the Moon's Crust - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:17] <exec> 08└─Baby steps. This is Canada, not Florida.
[16:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:45] <exec> 08└─I picked up a used Shuttle XPC i8 and threw in a GTX760ti and a few faster hard drives. Total cost about $600 and it runs 120fps no problem.
[16:46:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:00] <exec> 08└─I found the single most interesting piece on the topic was the paper "An epidemiological investigation of 2019 novel coronavirus diseases through aerosol-borne transmission by public transport" by Kai-wei, Zheng et. al. (2020-03-05) English sum-up in the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk
[16:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:31] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with them discouraging the Joe Sixpacks from using N95 masks so that they are available to those that need them. I do have a problem with them lying and purposely spreading misinformation to accomplish it though. There's already a bunch of conspiracy theories around the virus and a...
[16:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─That's kind of like saying my girlfriend is just a little pregnant since most of my sperm wasn't inside of her.
[16:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:34] <exec> 08└─How is it childish to ignore a pathological liar?
[16:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:37] <exec> 08└─I get kind of tired of the condescension spewed at the public -- most people are perfectly competent if given adequate information. Most people are not just a gaggle of proles whose only purpose is to gurgle and har-har and serve their better masters. The reason the CDC's messaging was ineffective w...
[16:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:39] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound right to me. I've been hearing everyone say humidity kills the virus, and if it moisture helps it survive, dry arid places would be safe. The best experiment I can think of, would be to put a bunch of people in a room together. Half with mask, Half without, then put in an off the...
[16:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:41] <exec> 08└─No shit: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─I would bet my house that the CDC employees who came up with the misleading mask info hate Trump. The surveillance state was out to get him as we've now had confirmation of, and I suspect every other ossified layer of the government is out there to do, doing the #resistance thing. Whether #resistanc...
[16:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:45] <exec> 08└─Regarding N95 masks not being standard equipment, that's not what Wikipedia says [wikipedia.org], although I see that's not the mask used typically. So consider me semi-corrected and better informed. Regarding your mask-covered mug, glad to hear that you are using some kind of mask. My point was wor...
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[16:47:25] <exec> 08└─The X-37B successfully took off at 9:14AM ET on Sunday, though ULA ended live coverage of the mission early at the request of the Air Force.
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[16:49:28] <exec> 08└─Fair point on the environmental difference. 2 hours a week would make it more efficient than working and driving over to the supermarket once a week. Not much of an option now of course as killing off 7 billion people to support the lifestyle would encounter some resistance.
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[17:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:05] <exec> 08└─Average immunity for SARS is 2 years: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] There is absolutely no indication or expectation that SARS v1 differs from SARS v2 significantly enough to suggest that there is some radically different immune response. NOTE: Using one of th...
[17:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─Assuming this one acts like SARS, it would make sense to get a combined nCov-2019/influenza vaccine every year, IMO.
[17:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:09] <exec> 08└─All of these cases can easily be attributed to failed testing (people being cleared that were simply below the PCR test sensitivity levels, or other PCR test accuracy fault), use of antivirals (which would not confer immunity). But yes. it is very important to keep ramping up the fear .. must ... mu...
[17:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:11] <exec> 08└─Assuming this one is like SARS-v1 (yes) an effective vaccine is quite unlikely to arrive soon. The SARS-v1 vaccine was scrapped because the outcomes were worse that the disease ... and SARS-v1 was 10x more deadly that SARS-v2. If the current IFR rates hold steady an vaccine will be nearly as pointle...
[17:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:13] <exec> 08└─What do you suggest then? My main motivation for mixing the two is the flu shots are well-covered by Medicare (so the elderly and very sick get them free). If the government thinks flu is important enough to vaccinate against like that, then nCov-2019 sure as hell ought to be. More so, if anything.
[17:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:15] <exec> 08└─One of the comments mentions Cells at Work! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cells_at_Work!). I watched the first episode on YouTube, it was, um, interesting.
[17:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:17] <exec> 08└─You will need to get the a SARS *series* of vaccines as profitable as the flu vaccine. https://www.npr.org [npr.org] https://www.wired.com [wired.com] ...
[17:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 2862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:04] <exec> 08└─By upgrade, they seem to mean only at the time of purchase. I've always thought of upgrades more broadly. and found my expectations were off. Upgrades, especially ones done to an aging machine, are of limited value. All the hardware changes so fast that it's difficult or impossible to migrate an upg...
[17:46:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:35] <exec> 08└─This "whistleblowing" sounds more like sour grapes.
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:58] <exec> 08└─I'm as much armchair virologist as anyone here (and haven't even studied all of Prof. Drosten's "lectures" diligently). As I got it, the virus surface is fat-like, but it can dry out. Therefore detergents (tensids) instantly dissolve it, but other than that, it seems to prefer to be in a fluid. Dros...
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[17:47:08] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. And how precisely is it going to tell the difference between encryption and say, compression? Pretty sure me running an "xz -9 -T0 disk.img" would look remarkably the same as if some malware was encrypting stuff as fast as it could.
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[18:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:14] <exec> 08└─The common cold is not one where you get a permanent immunity, but if it hasn't been too long since the last one, the next one is mild and refreshes your immune system's memory. Most of the population has some sort of immunity and the virus is continually circulating in the community. A common cold...
[18:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:16] <exec> 08└─Last year, I got a flu shot late in the season - and then a month later I contracted the flu. I went to the doctor and tested positive for the flu. This was pretty surprising given I had had the flu shot. But the symptoms cleared out in a few days instead of lasting the typical week, so I guess the...
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[18:45:46] <exec> 08└─This is very interesting, but seriously reminds me of Rube Goldberg. If you want to make a "player piano" for a bass guitar, it seems like there has to be a much simpler and more direct way of doing it that would also be more versatile and allow you to play any bassline (maybe not with bending notes...
[18:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:06] <exec> 08└─"The Alienware Area-51m R2 comes with up to an Intel Core i9-10900K, Nvidia RTX 2080 Super," Intle cpu and nvidia GPU? lmao! you can shove that shit right back up your ass, dell.
[18:46:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:21] <exec> 08└─The only point that I'm going to raise: The OP said "N95" masks -- not ye 'ole common cloth mask, which will keep droplets from spreading as you say, and is viable for joe six-pack. The common cloth masks are _not_ viable for health care workers, and so there's a clear priority.
[18:46:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03toddestan [4982] 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 702 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:52] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with them discouraging the Joe Sixpacks from using N95 masks so that they are available to those that need them. I do have a problem with them lying and purposely spreading misinformation to accomplish it though. There's already a bunch of conspiracy theories around the virus and a...
[18:46:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1668 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:55] <exec> 08└─I get kind of tired of the condescension spewed at the public -- most people are perfectly competent if given adequate information. Most people are not just a gaggle of proles whose only purpose is to gurgle and har-har and serve their better masters. The reason the CDC's messaging was ineffective w...
[18:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─The body is a wet environment. If moisture killed it, it couldn't infect us.
[18:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─For long use, a bit of duct tape at the nose helps keep the eye protection clear. But, a rubber mask, preferable fed from a pressure source of fresh air is best for long jobs.
[18:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:07] <exec> 08└─Isn't she more likely to get pregnant with a full load vs some sperm that ended up on her finger? Millions of sperm and only 1 gets in the egg.
[18:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:09] <exec> 08└─The real elite rich can afford their own health care teams with enough N95 masks. They can pay high prices for the masks, ventilators etc and get them. They don't have to expose themselves too. Other people can do the purchasing, cooking, safety systems and procedures so that they can live in luxuri...
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[19:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:04] <exec> 08└─only the land of Oz was filmed in Technicolor because it was so much more costly than black and white
[19:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─To be fair, almost everyone was a chicken farmer in 1900 that didn't live in a city, and even some who did. As to color film, it was a whole lot more expensive than black and white, especially when that movie came out, but having Kansas in black and white and Oz in color was an artistic decision. If...
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[19:45:07] <exec> 08└─God, I loved those books when I was a kid! Talk about spurring the imagination! I remember being at the local library (hey, remember those?) spending hours reading them. I think I got through four of the (never-ending) series. Do they still broadcast the film around Easter time? I loved that movie t...
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[19:45:09] <exec> 08└─I read some of the books as well when I was a kid and loved them! I still remember them from time to time. That was quite a while ago and about the only thing I can remember now, off the top of my head, are some characters who were in jars, and subject to breakage. Kind of like canning I guess, I ca...
[19:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:26] <exec> 08└─Cells at work is indeed interesting. My wife was a doctor and an immunologist, well versed in cell biology, so it was an especial treat for her. She would explain technical details to me.
[19:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:28] <exec> 08└─There are maybe a hundred or so different organisms that cause the common cold, both viral and bacterial. Only few are coronaviruses. Acquiring immunity to one doesn't help much against the others.
[19:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:30] <exec> 08└─maybe, maybe not
[19:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:32] <exec> 08└─the flu shots are well-covered by Medicare (so the elderly and very sick get them free). If the government thinks flu is important enough
[19:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:34] <exec> 08└─Flu shot is not 100% effective at preventing the flu, just as MMR vaccine is not 100% effective at giving your children autism.
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:04] <exec> 08└─Um, isn't that called "midi"?
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 2600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─Your CPU, GPU, etc. are aggressively cheap-for-their-utility space age nanotechnologies. It shouldn't be hard to justify a new purchase if you look at it that way, don't buy parts with particularly bad price/performance, and target a certain performance increase over an old system. Upgrades depend o...
[19:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:23] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, so Joe Bidens lie total is up to what? A week, week and a half of Trumps? And even discussing sex scandals at this point in time is laughable after electing Mr. Grab Em by the Pussy. All politicos lie. But Trumpy even beats Nixon.....and the 1919 White Sox.... https://en.wikipedia.org
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[20:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:28] <exec> 08└─Nor will any Covid-19 vaccine, when and if it ever will come out, be 100% effective at preventing getting ill with Covid-19. Does this scare some of you cowering in fear at home? Get over it, by then the presidential election will have passed and the MSM will tell you to suck it up.
[20:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unexpected Brain Strategy Links Two Events Separated by Time - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:37] <exec> 08└─Why is this unexpected? Isn't this the most logical assumption? We already know that repitition is key in forming memories, and that there exist feedback loops in the brain to aggregate information over time (for example, our auditory system can keep six seconds worth of speech). It isn't a large le...
[20:46:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03toddestan [4982] 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 484 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:13] <exec> 08└─You can have an ARM desktop today. Just buy a Raspberry Pi, and install your favorite ARM-supported Linux distro on it, or just use stock Raspbian. The Pi4 is powerful enough that you can run a modern web browser at non-glacial speeds. The Pi3 struggles with that, but can do most anything else. You...
[20:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:18] <exec> 08└─>he's fooled even large masses of the (hah!) so-called elect This is not gonna happen though. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. note the "if it were possible" which i...
[20:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. Not even kind of. You really, really need to read up on viral contagion. Badly.
[20:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants Partner Nations to Agree to "Artemis Accords" for Lunar Exploration - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:25] <exec> 08└─It's on the NASA site: Transparency is a key principle for responsible civil space exploration and NASA has always taken care to publicly describe its policies and plans. Artemis Accords partner nations will be required to uphold this principle by publicly describing their own policies and plans in...
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[21:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:55] <exec> 08└─Nuff said.
[21:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:56] <exec> 08└─All it takes is one Rodney King beating or Ahrmad Rahbery shooting to trigger a storm of chimpouts in the Los Angeles and Chicago metropolitan areas. And the cops run when muhfuggas got guns, knowmsayin'?
[21:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:08] <exec> 08└─Gender essentialist challenge mode: is "Ozma" really a woman, or does Tip fantasize quietly and coldly behind a cup of tea about raping Dorothy and her little dog too? Sociology round: Any evidence of moral outrage in 1904 when The Marvelous Land of Oz was published? It is not difficult to imagine t...
[21:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:10] <exec> 08└─I always heard it was a political allegory around monetary policy. The yellow brick road was the gold standard. The originally silver slippers the demonetization of silver. The wicked witch was 'liquidated' etc.
[21:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:12] <exec> 08└─I loved the books as a kid too -- still have them seventy years later. I was an early reader who went from a Dagwood comic strip to Dr. Seuss's first book to the Oz books by age 7, and was I hot to see Wizard when it came to town... Until I saw the goddamn thing. They'd turned that gripping adventur...
[21:45:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:30] <exec> 08└─There are maybe a hundred or so different organisms that cause the common cold, both viral and bacterial. Only few are coronaviruses. Acquiring immunity to one doesn't help much against the others.
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:35] <exec> 08└─The other good news is that this team looked for the signs of an antibody-dependent-enhancement response, which would be bad news, and did not find evidence of it in the recovering patients (I didn’t go into these details, but wanted to mention that finding, which is quite reassuring).
[21:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:29] <exec> 08└─Evidently you live well outside Italy or well under rocks. gates as in bill gates who doesn't deserve a shift keypress for capitalization. Source: https://www.ilsole24ore.com [ilsole24ore.com] The source is the leadi...
[21:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:31] <exec> 08└─Germans surrendered to Hitler because they knew Weimar was a slow death. Italians surrendered to Mussolini because the king said so but also because they were struggling with the death of agricultural society dictated by WWI. It's irrelevant to say Mussolini was a school teacher, Hitler a failing ar...
[21:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:33] <exec> 08└─Just a few links: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wi...
[21:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:35] <exec> 08└─This comment deserves a standing ovulation.
[21:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ALGOL 60 at 60: The Greatest Computer Language You've (Probably) Never Used - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:14] <exec> 08└─The problem with COMMON blocks is that you had to repeat the declarations identically in each function. If you got them wrong in one function, the code looked fine, but that function would be reading and writing variables in the common block that were not the ones evidently named in the function. Lo...
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[22:45:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 10 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─Nuff said.
[22:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─Goldblum was right.
[22:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:09] <exec> 08└─Don't let those innocent looking butterflies fool you. They may look harmless but unbeknownst to you they are responsible for all sorts of catastrophes. We need to call the exterminator!!!!
[22:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:22] <exec> 08└─You are probably right with the artistic decision. But it sure did not hurt. Remember that movie was the 'low budget B plan'. If Gone with the Wind failed this would at least keep MGM alive. Lucky for them they both did decently.
[22:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:24] <exec> 08└─Baum set out to create a uniquely American fairy tale, and he did. The series of books arguably makes it the Harry Potter of its day, although I'm not aware of kids waiting in line for new releases at the bookstores. I do seem to recall that it triggered the same sort of moral panic that HP did (goo...
[22:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sometimes I read kids' books of the late 19th and early-mid 20th century, and it's astounding how mortality, failure, risk, even rape and physical abuse, were in the stories. Kids' books of today are cotton candy. I would rather my kids think about how the horse feels when it's whipped, how th...
[22:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:22] <exec> 08└─Yep way too much over engineering. As they might say in the Islands, "Mo beata use beer bottal": https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:23] <exec> 08└─Cool, thanks for bringing that to our attention!!!
[22:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 642 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:21] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'm taking what I consider to be an exceptionally childish - yet effective - approach to "dealing with" the orange man. I ignore him whenever and wherever possible, and subtly belittle and ridicule those who extole his virtues. The Trump "supporters" I know aren't even offended when you...
[22:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:50] <exec> 08└─The problem I see with mein Cheeto in Chief is that instead of a slow suicide he is pushing for a fast one.
[22:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:52] <exec> 08└─I'm familiar with our numbers, here in New Zealand, where the government were honest and open with us, and we played ball. This means New Zealand’s combined total of confirmed and probable cases is 1,499, of which 1,149 are confirmed cases of COVID-19. We now have 1,433 people reported as having r...
[22:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:54] <exec> 08└─So you're arguing that because people chose fascism last century, and had their reasons, we shouldn't blame them for doing it again? Despite the fact that we know how that ended? Weird.
[22:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Longbow Arrows Caused Injuries Similar to Gunshot Wounds, Study Finds - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah. If you've done much archery you're aware that fletching, wind, a rough release, all give a lot of time-varying parameters. The arrow itself deforms in and out of ) | ( shapes in one axis (relative to it). A perfectly true arrow with superb fletching will spin (rifle) the entire time it is in f...
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[23:45:13] <exec> 08└─OK, I read the Wikipedia article on this. "The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in another location." https://en.wikipedia.or...
[23:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:14] <exec> 08└─I have to ask: Small disturbances, sure, but what about great ones? If millions of voices were to cry out in terror and be suddenly silenced, would that make a bigger hurricane?
[23:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:16] <exec> 08└─Kill them all. Let God sort them out.
[23:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:19] <exec> 08└─Herd behavior... Herd behavior is the behavior of individuals in a group acting collectively without centralized direction.
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[23:45:35] <exec> 08└─Where does Mombi, the Shaggy Man, Tik-Tok, and the Nome King fit in with this interpretation?
[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─https://theconversation.com/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-first-sars-virus-and-why-we-need-a-vaccine-for-the-current-one-but-didnt-for-the-other-137583 [theconversation.com] What about a SARS vaccine? Vaccine studies for SARS-CoV-1 were started and tested in animal models. An inactivated whole...
[23:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:01] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the link.
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[23:46:54] <exec> 08└─Would rather have high quality audio and play RJD2 at max detail in the hotel. :)
[23:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:56] <exec> 08└─Interesting, thanks for bringing AVX-512 to my (our) attention.
[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:58] <exec> 08└─Did not know PS/2 was still used. You're right, I forgot about AV2. I'm still waiting for the growth and rapid adoption of AV1. One thing about USB: for a "standard", there sure are a lot of different connector types.
[23:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:06] <exec> 08└─I call bullshit. Well, I call psychosomatic, inclusive-or bullshit. I've used N95 on site for 12h shifts minus food breaks. For thousands and thousands of hours total. The only time they are restrictive is in such particulate-filled air that the mask is pancaked (and discoloured!). That won't happen...
[23:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:08] <exec> 08└─What? That's like saying "lead makes people dumb some places, so blows to the head can't make people dumb." These are multifactorial issues. Your analysis is deeply flawed.
[23:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:10] <exec> 08└─Then you either run marathons as a hobby, your shit wasn't sealed worth a damn, or you were not in fact using N95 masks.
[23:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:12] <exec> 08└─P.S. I've used cartridge masks as well. For hours on end while preforming strenuous exercise. They breathe much better than an N95 does.
[23:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:14] <exec> 08└─True, but sperm aren't self replicating. Most of your viruses not getting out doesn't help when only one will turn someone covid19 positive. Why would an epidemiologist wear so much gear against covi19 while Joe will get equal protection by just wearing a single mask.
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