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[00:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:03] <exec> 08└─Fundamental particles for just a fraction of the usual charge!
[00:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:05] <exec> 08└─Fermions, Baryons, Anyones, and Morons.
[00:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:07] <exec> 08└─But WAIT! THERE'S MORE!!!
[00:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:09] <exec> 08└─Billy Mays. Best thing that ever happened to infomercials. RIP.
[00:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:11] <exec> 08└─Says scientist who doesn't want you to ask any questions.
[00:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:26] <exec> 08└─Life, uh uh uh... finds a way.
[00:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:27] <exec> 08└─Don't give them any ideas. Currently they all pray facing Mecca. If they all faced, say, 20 deg to the left of Mecca the vortex might be enough?
[00:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:45] <exec> 08└─The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, perhaps America's favorite children's story, is also an informed comment on the battle over free silver in the 1890s. The characters in the story represent real figures such as William Jennings Bryan. This paper interprets the allegory for economists and economic historia...
[00:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:47] <exec> 08└─Gender essentialist challenge mode
[00:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:49] <exec> 08└─Playwright, chicken farmer and children's book author L. Frank Baum published "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" 120 years ago Sunday. The book would sell out its first run of 10,000 copies in eight months and go on to sell a total of 3 million copies before it fell into the public domain in 1956.
[00:45:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:57] <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...
[00:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:16] <exec> 08└─But why did you excluded the following paragraph from your quote ? No human studies were done, nor were the vaccine studies taken further because the virus disappeared. Many factors were involved in the end of SARS-CoV-1, perhaps including summer weather, and certainly strict quarantine of all those...
[00:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:17] <exec> 08└─And one with human subjects in China: https://www.intmedpress.com [intmedpress.com] This one protected 83.33% of the study subjects for > 210 days. It used two vaccinations and ~8 weeks to achieve seropositive, had complications (not immediatel...
[00:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:20] <exec> 08└─Did you read the abstract of your link ? Conclusion: The inactivated vaccine was safe and well tolerated and can elicit SARS-CoV-specific neutralizing antibodies.
[00:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:22] <exec> 08└─Because the author's assertion is mostly inaccurate. There were human trials with other attempts at SARS vaccines. The SARS family virii continue to be studied and attempts at vaccines continue to be developed. The *pace* of development may have changed but is rather typical in these cases ..
[00:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:24] <exec> 08└─Although a group has reported that they observed severe liver inflammation when a recom- binant vaccine, created by genetically modifying a pox virus to produce SARS-CoV spike (S) protein, was tested in ferrets [14], our previously performed pathological study on monkeys [15] and another study [16]...
[00:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:26] <exec> 08└─Yes .. I actually read the whole study which you obviously did not. The vaccine achieved seropositive results (that's good) but also cause liver disease (that's bad). The level of seropositive achieved is believed to be 'enough' but was below the level of seropositive of people who had SARS and surv...
[00:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:28] <exec> 08└─Yup. There's lots of studies strongly indicating you can get reinfected, meaning you don't build up immunity, or that it's only temporary. Picking out this one study that says something you'd really like to hear doesn't invalidate all of the others. That, combined with the fact that no-one has ever...
[00:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:01] <exec> 08└─I think you're missing my point. A slide guitar isn't going to let you have a machine playing an arbitrary bassline automatically. This guy built a very complicated mechanical contraption that plays limited riffs on a bass using adjustable capos (they aren't really capos, since they fret only one st...
[00:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alienware’s Upgradeable Laptop Still Holds Tons of Promise, but Not at That Price - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:25] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware [wikipedia.org] MediaTek Dimensity 1000 smartphone SoCs will have it. It looks like Intel's Rocket Lake [tomshardware.com] will have it, but maybe not Tiger Lake [wikipedia.org]. Not sure about AMD and Nvidia's GPUs later this year. I think AV2 adoption wil...
[00:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:40] <exec> 08└─Hum. That does make a lot of sense to me. I know moisture does remove dust from the air, maybe there is a similar effect to spit launched or skin flaked virus projectiles. Maybe the virus itself lives on mites that exists on dust, or even can exist as a dust like particle. I know dandelion seeds and...
[00:48:41] <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
[00:48:41] <exec> 08└─Access Hollywood tape comment was in the context of back stage activities, likely involving groupies who violate the stars personal space in a sexual manor. It is a well documented phenomenon, and expected for an Access Hollywood discussion. If the star reciprocates, we call that consent.
[00:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a way to make a flu "vaccine" like approach. If they could use some body safe detergent to partially dissolve the virus, then inject into a patient to generate an autoimmune response to build up antibodies against it. Too bad that cannot be asked otherwise the media will say they're tell...
[00:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:46] <exec> 08└─Brown shirts were hired by companies because police failed to protect property from destruction by Antifa. The Weimar Republic had all of the features that "progressives" want. If you give someone 2 bad choices, they are going to choose 1 of them. So the point is to avoid painting ourselves into tha...
[00:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware Attacks - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:02] <exec> 08└─Right. This is a heuristic. It will have false positives in real use cases and false negatives (5%) also. It will also be subject to countercounterattack from ransomware, which might null out instead of encrypting if this countermeasure is detected, or might aim to disable this countermeasure before...
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[01:45:09] <exec> 08└─Soylons... tiny particles that display a charge that varies between -1 and +5 depending on how many observers have enjoyed them.
[01:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:11] <exec> 08└─some ideas [tasteofhome.com]
[01:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:13] <exec> 08└─Surely Anyonmous Coward only experiences quasi-moderation?
[01:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:30] <exec> 08└─Your farty ass thinks it's a joke, but it's your smelly assholes that bring down the evil tornadoes. Smelly Fucks.
[01:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:51] <exec> 08└─Worked Wizard as stage crew in high school--c.1970. We had a mechanically minded set designer and built a bridge that rotated, central pivot and small rubber tire wheel drove it around, powered by a 3-phase reversing motor. Even made our own slip rings from PVC, copper pipe rings and heavy copper br...
[01:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:25] <exec> 08└─SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Corona Wuhan China Virus. Can we please just pick one and go with it.
[01:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:26] <exec> 08└─A transient increase in serum ALT is not that relevant in this study, again you selectivly choose not to state that it also occured in the placebo control group (1/12)...
[01:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:29] <exec> 08└─Read up on it: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And specifically this part: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Biology is NOT a school testsheet where you check the right boxes and receive...
[01:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2, Offtopic) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:31] <exec> 08└─Kung flu 1.3 : It conveys everything, nature, origin, version, and it has that martial undertone.
[01:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:33] <exec> 08└─Are you aware plasma from survivors does cure the covid? even the evil gates is eyeing that therapy. Using plasma is a delicate matter, sure, but given the way vaccines are manufactured and prescribed, getting plasma should not scare you much.
[01:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:35] <exec> 08└─You suggest, 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
[01:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:54] <exec> 08└─Good lord. What a strange worldview. It's almost like reality is optional.
[01:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:55] <exec> 08└─and still the situation is better than in most countries. Less deaths per million than in any country that mandated the masks. https://www.statista.com [statista.com] If this observation does not disprove the supposed magical p...
[01:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:57] <exec> 08└─Uh and about those great signs and wonders... and that head of the beast (a nation) being struck and healed... The only thing we are getting is the wormwood star (nuclear shit in the pacific, I guess some rotting sub or the aptly named fuk-u-shima reactor)
[01:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware Attacks - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:14] <exec> 08└─You seem to have missed my overall point: I'm not saying this isn't a good idea. I'm saying its an old idea, and that the novelty of this new research is pretty limited. Limited to perhaps identifying a minor additional signal.
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[02:45:04] <exec> 08└─[horse shit]iOS and beOS [dog shit]OS X and iPhone X [rat shit]SQL and MySQL [Linux]Linux [snake shit]Qi [panda shit]Huawei [human shit]Windows
[02:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:06] <exec> 08└─SQL is pronounced "sequel," right or wrong. You are fighting a (long) lost war.
[02:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:08] <exec> 08└─[Shit-gates]Windows
[02:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:10] <exec> 08└─My name is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux uh, Linux.
[02:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:12] <exec> 08└─They're either acronyms that are so annoying to pronounce people quickly came up with an easy shortcut that stuck (sequel, scuzzy...) or stuff that was just made up from the get-go by whatever marketdroid came up with the name (chi). You can pronounce Ess Queue El if you so wish. It just marks you a...
[02:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:15] <exec> 08└─If you like lysol, thank god for trump, it's pronounced ly as in lysol, nuc as in knucklehead, and ... X. Why X? Because it's like unix, got the x in the end, like all cool names. So it's pronounced "lie knuck X."
[02:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:17] <exec> 08└─No it's not
[02:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:19] <exec> 08└─Oh no?!#E%$
[02:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:21] <exec> 08└─Actually, I wear my ignorance of SQL as a badge of honor.
[02:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:23] <exec> 08└─Lewis Carroll had Humpty explain it best [goodreads.com]
[02:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:26] <exec> 08└─The language was originally named "SEQUEL" for Structured English Query Language. Alas, that name was already taken, so they had to change it. Thus, renamed to SQL, pronounced "SEQUEL." Now you know. :-D
[02:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:28] <exec> 08└─Pronounced "Postgres."
[02:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:30] <exec> 08└─Honey Bunches of Oats. The bestest cerial. Fuck Count Chocula.
[02:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:32] <exec> 08└─the name (chi)
[02:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder why nobody tried to adapt them.
[02:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:26] <exec> 08└─They did.
[02:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:25] <exec> 08└─If it's labeled as sponsored by Carl's Jr. that's fair game. When it's paid for by Carl's Jr. but labeled as official guidance from the CDC, FDA, or any other government agency - that's when we should be throwing the bums out at the next election.
[02:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:27] <exec> 08└─It's just another way of saying that the only thing worse than Trump was Clinton. Trump may be an ignorant buffoon, but he would have to do a lot more evil before he is worse than a hot war in Iran. Hillary and the MIC* were gearing up for that even before the election, her losing to Trump saved a l...
[02:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:29] <exec> 08└─I learned a new euphemism today! +1 Informative :-)
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[03:45:19] <exec> 08└─You make a valid point but can we all agree its pronounced Jigga as in Jiggawatts?!
[03:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:20] <exec> 08└─The weirdness in English vowels is mostly the result of the great vowel shift. If you know what that means, then it's easy to reconstruct their primary values, and if you don't, then Italian (or Spanish) will get you pretty much the same thing by a different route.
[03:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:22] <exec> 08└─here [youtube.com]
[03:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:25] <exec> 08└─"or stuff that was just made up from the get-go by whatever marketdroid came up with the name (chi)." That's the one you're wrong on. Qi is the pinyin spelling of the Chinese word for breath. Before pinyin, it was usually spelled ch'i. In addition to meditation and martial arts, the word should be f...
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[03:49:16] <exec> 08└─My guess, is eventually they will suggest the best thing is to let people get the virus and let them fight it off to build up an immunity instead of being bubble boys.
[03:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:18] <exec> 08└─Explain that analogy to me like I'm a 4th yr med student.
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[03:49:20] <exec> 08└─We were told that Hillary had a 99% chance of winning. Wrong. Trump colluded with Russia. Wrong. Reconsider whose reality is suspect.
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[04:45:27] <exec> 08└─Yet I still think "ESS que ell" and say it like that too more often
[04:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:43] <exec> 08└─Or their antiparticle, since it can be shown that the flux density of morons is inversely proportional to the applied potential of lessons
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[04:45:44] <exec> 08└─Fermions, Baryons, Anyones, and Morons.
[04:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:46] <exec> 08└─We shall ask no questions about quasi-reality. The phrase "Everything fits the theory." accepted as a next dogma. Keep sciencing...
[04:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:06] <exec> 08└─The list of symptoms is a non-sequitur to the question of immune response. Since the mechanism of infection is the same spike protein there is good reason to expect that once you are seropositive for CoV-2 you are immune for some time. The time period is very likely to be the similar to that of CoV-...
[04:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:08] <exec> 08└─Just as a data point: Dogs that have recovered from parvovirus typically harbor live virus for a year or more afterward (and will shed infective virus in feces). In rare cases they have a relapse (usually less serious). Anyway, not an unknown scenario.
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[04:50:44] <exec> 08└─I'll ask in a slightly different way. How does a secret military project violate the principle of "publicly describing their own policies and plans in a transparent manner"? For starters, it's not a policy or plan, much less a description of such. And I'm glossing over the military versus civilian t...
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[04:52:24] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time I was on an island that was owned by an Asian military for the last hundred years or so. No visitors. Here is the procedure of living over there that I imagined and tried. You walk naked. When hungry you walk into the water and stick your finger out. When a few minutes later a fish...
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[05:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:02] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter if it's a Predator or a $100 DJI, drones are classified as aircraft, and if it's in the air, it's in federal airspace. And it's against the law to shoot at them.
[05:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:29] <exec> 08└─I've only every heard posers and microsofters call it "sequel". But what would they be doing near a technical meeting?
[05:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:31] <exec> 08└─The correct pronunciation of SQL is the one that annoys the uptight people around you the most :)
[05:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:49] <exec> 08└─"Fundamental particles for just a fraction of the usual charge!" Well, noons cares!!! *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) In opposed to anyons
[05:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:10] <exec> 08└─I agree, and take it a step further -- do like was common in the 1980s, and in some places even today -- vaccine is cheap or even free to everyone. Tho it might not be a good idea to combine CV and influenza vaccines; a few weeks apart would be better for maximum immunity and fewest fails/bad reacti...
[05:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:11] <exec> 08└─Back when flu vaccine was the new kid on the block, after I'd had 3 or 4 different vaccines, I noticed that I didn't get the flu anymore, not even if this year's vaccine proved to be the wrong one. So appears there's some cross-coverage, and enough immune memory to be useful even if the current vacc...
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[06:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:04] <exec> 08└─hello, i am from Nigeria and i have a dead cat i need someone to raise from the dead i am paying $5000.00 for the effort should you succeed in this endeavor
[06:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:05] <exec> 08└─they already collect almost everything [giphy.com] So this doesn't change much, it just enables FB to 'get' the data directly, rather than as a 'third party'. Wonder what impact this will have on reddit and imgur (lots of giphy use for racist, pornographic, rude, etc etc content)?
[06:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:14] <exec> 08└─He thought it was one of his chickens trying to escape.
[06:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:17] <exec> 08└─He was overflying a farm, to show the ugly side of things. This is a little skirmish in a long running battle that includes, on one side: activists taking jobs at operations to expose illegal and/or unsavory practices. On the other side? Powerful corporate interests bribing legislatures to enact "a...
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[06:45:19] <exec> 08└─when you are buying off the government to conceal your actions, what does that say about you?
[06:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:48] <exec> 08└─That is why I pronounce it MongoDB.
[06:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:50] <exec> 08└─When referring to the actual textual commands used with a database, I say "ess que ell". When referring to a server product, such as Microsoft's SQL Server, I say "sequel". This way there's always someone who bitches at me.
[06:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:52] <exec> 08└─Glad to know that both Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce are considered a posers and Microsofters.
[06:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:54] <exec> 08└─http://www.sqlcourse.com/intro.html [sqlcourse.com]
[06:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:56] <exec> 08└─My main objection against pronouncing SQL "sequel" is that that was in fact the predecessor to SQL. SQL = Structured Query Language. SEQUEL = Structured English QUEry Language. If you're in fact referring to the IBM version from 1974 then by all means call it "sequel", but for those of us who don't...
[06:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:58] <exec> 08└─What we should all take away from this is the realization that ArsTechnica must really be hurting for hits at the moment. So they came up with something for everyone to fight over. Oh, how I'd love to see that site shut down, the employees fired, the forum posters scattered to the uncaring winds.
[06:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:00] <exec> 08└─In addition to meditation and martial arts, the word should be familiar to many from the game Wei qi
[06:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:03] <exec> 08└─My prefered method for solving these mysteries (when available) is to check the kana [wikipedia.org]. Es kyuu eru. Settled. How about that thing that directs the packets this way and that? Ruutaa [wikipedia.org] Although sometimes there is a term which is so bad in every possible way that nobody can...
[06:47:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:26] <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...
[06:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:12] <exec> 08└─Well, there's the whole Iraq war and such, but what's a few hundred thousand dead foreigners to Democrats like Biden?
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[07:45:06] <exec> 08└─n/t
[07:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:07] <exec> 08└─Does giphy even make money[1]? I'm not sure if the 400 million is worth if for facebook from a profit perspective. But if giphy goes down a lot of stuff on the internet might show broken images... So if it means stuff will be up for longer by using FB's money that's fine with me. Not fine if FB brea...
[07:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:19] <exec> 08└─It's a pretty obvious a case of trespass and invasion of privacy. This is more of an anti-gun thing than a drone thing. Minnesota has some really terrible gun laws that help noone. They are duty to retreat over there. I have no doubt they will charge him with murder of artificial life or something d...
[07:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:20] <exec> 08└─Ok so you can shoot em down and leave the country the day after, provided that you have a bunch of Israelis celebrating the event and gave close business ties with the Bush dynasty.
[07:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:22] <exec> 08└─Stupid (?) question -- what are the laws regarding targeting an electromagnetic pulse at the drone? Proving damages would then be the electronic version of a sort of arson investigation, perhaps?
[07:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:25] <exec> 08└─Not just *a* chicken [youtube.com] -- but nobody would have believed him anyway.
[07:45:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:58] <exec> 08└─My main objection against pronouncing SQL "sequel" is that that was in fact the predecessor to SQL. SQL = Structured Query Language. SEQUEL = Structured English QUEry Language. If you're in fact referring to the IBM version from 1974 then by all means call it "sequel", but for those of us who don't...
[07:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:02] <exec> 08└─I am not sure of what you are referring to, anyway English, like other languages, considers vowels as something to separate consonants with. Not so in God given languages like Latin.
[07:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:43] <exec> 08└─Names have been chosen: SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the virus, which causes the disease named COVID-19, just like HIV is the virus, and AIDS the name of the disease it causes. That's the official terminology. It's just that some people who seem to have an agenda involving sowing more discrimination an...
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[08:45:02] <exec> 08└─I could see the argument for allowing different plate styles to have the same number, especially back when they were enforced by actual people who would already be well aware. But for a long time in my state, people from different counties could have the same number. In addition, they used to be con...
[08:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:13] <exec> 08└─for FB, it doesn't have to make money itself; it just has to help collect more tracking data across FB and other sites (which FB doesn't own, but now can track/trace and know all about the sites, the users of the sites, and where they go after they've been there ... so Giphy users are effectively 'g...
[08:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:28] <exec> 08└─I'll play the devil's advocate here, and say the guy was entirely justified. The drone was flying over private property with the explicit intent of photographing that property. While this was a business, it's the same principle as the guy who downed the drone that was taking creep-pics of his daught...
[08:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:07] <exec> 08└─[ape shit]Windows
[08:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, little Italian troll. You want pushback? Let's rock. AO! Ah, testa di minchia! Ma chi cazzo sei?! Come ti permetti rispondermi così, cafone?! Ti ho chiesto semplicemente delle spiegazioni e delle chiarificazioni e pensi che questo ti permette d'insultarmi? Pezzente che non sei altro! Now that w...
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[09:45:02] <exec> 08└─The whole place was designed to confuse automatic plate readers: commercial [bing.net] bus Lots more here [google.com] tl;dr: the automated plate readers need to be able to distinguish the words under, and beside the plate numbers and letters to work out the plate type, and even then, the state allo...
[09:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:14] <exec> 08└─Well if FB is willing to blow away 400 million for that, perhaps someone should come up with a giphy/imgurl "anonymizer"/cache/plugin... Then 5 years later sell out to FB for another 400 million. Repeat rinse etc.
[09:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:30] <exec> 08└─He should just claim that he is a cop and that he thought it was someones dog.
[09:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:19] <exec> 08└─The Iraq war was started in 2003, under George Bush. There was indeed bipartisan support for it. So should you not hold Republicans feet to the fire as well? After all 215 (96.4%) of 223 Republican Representatives voted for the resolution. 82 (39.2%) of 209 Democratic Representatives voted for the r...
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[09:50:20] <exec> 08└─Shit, I posted my response to the wrong comment. Sorry bout that. It was supposed to go to hemocyanin's comment that posted a video about Biden lies. Sorry Azuma. It does appear I pissed a few people off however, so there is that.....
[09:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:22] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. It was never about groupies coming onto Trump. (GAG!) From the horses mouth: Trump: "Yeah that's her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I...
[09:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:11] <exec> 08└─I've heard it called a lot of things but "seize the means of production" is a new one. Stop it or you'll go blind.
[09:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:12] <exec> 08└─I've read that during good times, hunter-gatherers spend about five hours a week on getting food. That leaves plenty of time to build stuff to confuse their distant descendants. Of course during the bad times they can spend all their time on food and still go hungry.
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[10:45:03] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that this myth of competence of the "First World" countries was a media creation, rather, than it being based on fact ? or, Were the "Third World" countries so incompetent, that even a semblance of competence was enough to be considered as superior ? I am reminded of the Dunning-Kruge...
[10:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:05] <exec> 08└─"First World" is the new "Third World." Let us all not forget the original definition of "Third World." [wikipedia.org] Non-alignment, anybody? Everything else, economically speaking, trickled into the perception.
[10:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:07] <exec> 08└─All factors being equal, the criticism would be correct. However, there are (at least) three mayor differences: age structure, climate, and genetics. All three combined easily explain the current state of affairs despite worse measures and health systems in place in "third world" countries. Let's ju...
[10:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:09] <exec> 08└─What complete and utter political horse shit. A) Government-provided healthcare is not now and never has been a hallmark of first-world countries. It is in fact an idea that first-world countries picked up from second-world countries. B) Government-provided healthcare is not in any way a necessary c...
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[10:45:18] <exec> 08└─Back in 2002 everybody in the Netherlands was forced to buy new licence plates. There was a make believe story that this would combat theft. But the font [dafont.com] was highly optimized for automatic plate recognition, with open 'O's, 'P's etc. Theft stayed the same, but issuing of fines was autom...
[10:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:31] <exec> 08└─If all those meme GIFs annoy you as much as they do me, just install the AutoplayStopper extension. I sometimes have to open a twitter page, but with this extension it looks a lot less like an idiocracy, because all those moronic GIF loops are now frozen.
[10:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:32] <exec> 08└─What will happen to all the Giphy porn?
[10:45:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:47] <exec> 08└─I'll play the devil's advocate here, and say the guy was entirely justified. The drone was flying over private property with the explicit intent of photographing that property. While this was a business, it's the same principle as the guy who downed the drone that was taking creep-pics of his daught...
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[10:45:49] <exec> 08└─No. The drone operators were smart people who used technology to get around law and custom. Owner was a rural and suburban retard who is uneducated and not smart and his gun is dumb. Drones are Coll.
[10:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:52] <exec> 08└─No need to claim to be a cop, farmers have legal rights to shoot dogs threatening livestock even in no-gun-rights places like the UK. Long as he can convince the authorities he thought it was a flying dog, should be ok.
[10:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:31] <exec> 08└─SQL is pronounced "sequel," - only by the utterly corrupt, moral degenerates, and Microsoft shills. Sequel was a different product which preceded SQL and fortunately is slightly deader than some undead things. Its name should never be mentioned in public lest you invoke the devil himself - and you...
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[10:46:32] <exec> 08└─I actually do the same. Whenever someone bitches at me, I try to convince them that the official pronunciation is "squeal" and that any deviation from that is equally wrong.
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[10:46:35] <exec> 08└─No. Sequel was a previous language, similar in concept but over ambitions in its attempts to be English-like (for 1963) and was replaced by SQL - a completely different, less ambitions and more realistic project, after people discovered parsing English was more difficult than parsing COBOL.
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[10:46:54] <exec> 08└─yeah, well... that's one way to spin it.
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[11:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:06] <exec> 08└─All factors being equal, the criticism would be correct. However, there are (at least) three mayor differences: age structure, climate, and genetics. All three combined easily explain the current state of affairs despite worse measures and health systems in place in "third world" countries. Let's ju...
[11:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:07] <exec> 08└─If I say vanilla ice cream is the best flavor, and I like it much better, but I always choose strawberry - am I a reasonable and trustworthy person? Self-proclaimed journalists, socialists, and communists: Go live in the places you think are better. Us "reprehensible" capitalists will continue to ac...
[11:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:09] <exec> 08└─Your life is going to shit again, and again you're spreading your shit here.
[11:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:12] <exec> 08└─I think it's *far* too early to say. The initial spread was via international travel, almost exclusively a "first world" luxury, so they are going to be ahead of the curve. Now that we're starting to see traditional second and third world countries ramping up the situation on the ground is looking m...
[11:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:14] <exec> 08└─My life is in fact fantastic. That just chaps your ass because your ideals have caused your life to suck.
[11:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:16] <exec> 08└─Us "reprehensible" capitalists will continue to act cohesively with our stated opinions...
[11:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:18] <exec> 08└─My life is in fact fantastic.
[11:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think they secretly want to become Third World countries so the labor is cheaper. Higher profit margins.
[11:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:22] <exec> 08└─Well some of those Scandinavian social democracies do look very tempting, but I can't really be bothered to learn another language for now.
[11:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:25] <exec> 08└─The harms you reprehensible "capitalists" are doing are unfortunately global. And you the harms spread to other native species that cannot live elsewhere. So we'll continue to complain, loudly, until you change your ways, no matter what part of the planet we, or you, are typing from.
[11:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:27] <exec> 08└─No worries, if they're really progressive they won't require you to learn the language to emigrate and will happily make all government services available in your native language.
[11:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:29] <exec> 08└─Uhhh... s/And you the harms spread/And you spread the harms/
[11:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:31] <exec> 08└─Third World: Any country outside of the United States of America. Except for Canada, which is just a frozen wasteland and not a real country anyway. (Most in the US actually believe this)
[11:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:33] <exec> 08└─I've been to Norway; it's friggin' cold. Besides, I thought Jacinda's Kiwiland was supposed to be the centre-left beacon of coronavirus response?
[11:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:36] <exec> 08└─Heh, no. Third-world = Non-NATO, non-Warsaw-Pact nation.
[11:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:46] <exec> 08└─We have EZpass here in western NY but I don't use the local toll bridge very often. So I get bills for $2 every other month or so, when I use that bridge a couple of times. Touch wood, so far no problems (I do wish they left a cash toll lane). But maybe this is a good reason to sign up for EZPass an...
[11:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:18] <exec> 08└─Or dressing as a viking(?) and sending it to Valhalla with a spear [youtube.com].
[11:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:20] <exec> 08└─He should just claim that he is a cop
[11:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:22] <exec> 08└─There is just something so......satisfying about that clip, and it's certainly not the music.....
[11:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:24] <exec> 08└─> really terrible gun laws that help noone. No one? I bed to differ, in this case it helps the owner who had his drone shot down.
[11:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:06] <exec> 08└─Who you callin' a Jigga, honky?
[11:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:07] <exec> 08└─Well done noticing the tones. But I'm not unaware of the tones, I was just trying to avoid making my post unnecessarily long and confusing for those who don't really want a full lesson on mandarin. And despite knowing the tones, you seem to have missed my point, perhaps because you don't know the ga...
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[11:49:26] <exec> 08└─An Arduino or a "plucking device' though would defeat the purpose. It's supposed to be mechanical and use the marbles to create the music. It doesn't matter if it's more limited than an actual performer would be, it's art and engineering, combined in a psychotic delirium of beauty and sound. It isn'...
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[12:45:28] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. That's what first-world, second-world, and third-world mean.
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[12:45:29] <exec> 08└─Not sure I get who/what caused 'thousands of lives'? Bear in mind, that at least in Canada (where I live), the narrative has NEVER EVER been to stop people from getting the virus. Nope! Never. The only narrative has been to *slow* transmission, so that the hospitals would not be overwhelmed. Thus, g...
[12:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:31] <exec> 08└─Where I live, hospitals have *not* been overwhelmed. At all. Is that different in the US/UK? Have those needing treatment been turned away?
[12:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:33] <exec> 08└─citizens supporting a government whose actions cost thousands of lives?
[12:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:36] <exec> 08└─Ahem: Senegal - 2.9 % aged 65+ India - 5.4 % aged 65+ UK - 18.0 % aged 65+ https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[12:45:38] <exec> 08└─(Most in the US actually believe this)
[12:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:40] <exec> 08└─That would be Sweden, then...
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[12:45:42] <exec> 08└─You missed another key flaw in this claim: None of the first-world countries have health care systems that have collapsed, and they don't have "mass graves." The media keeps trying to - or was for a while - drum up hysteria about mass graves in New York, but it's actually just the usual mass grave w...
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[12:45:44] <exec> 08└─You should have highlighted age structure - cut and paste from my post below... (apologies to dupe post, but how else to do it?) Senegal - 2.9 % aged 65+ India - 5.4 % aged 65+ UK - 18.0 % aged 65+ Presumably this is something like a tail of a poisson distribution so the number aged 70+ is even more...
[12:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:47] <exec> 08└─So? The US is roughly the same size as all of Europe, if only half as crowded. Saying we haven't left our country isn't saying much.
[12:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:49] <exec> 08└─Remind me again which country this virus came from?
[12:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:51] <exec> 08└─So, you want to bring back literacy tests then? Maybe a poll tax? We left that crap behind a long time ago.
[12:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:53] <exec> 08└─You jest, but lots of people do see other groups, even within the same nation, as rivals and competitors, and want misfortune to fall upon them. The ambivalent political response is a reflection of this. They will even accept damage to themselves if those others are taking greater damage. They also...
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[12:45:55] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying because we have a bunch of land (about 5% of the planet's land, much of it desert) that staying immersed 100% in our culture (which comprises less than 5% of the total world population) provides sufficient perspective on the world to make decisions about how to interact with other...
[12:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:58] <exec> 08└─I'm saying that Europeans bragging about being worldly when they've only traveled around Europe is no more impressive than Americans who have never left the US. NYC alone is home to more cultures than all of Europe.
[12:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:01] <exec> 08└─Not literacy tests, and poll taxes are just a crude shortcut to enhance most of the problems we already have, how about general literacy and cultural awareness improvement? Maybe 90 minutes a week of "world travel" education for 4 years of school, consisting of things that actually reach the student...
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[12:46:14] <exec> 08└─Good luck fighting anything EZ-PASS in NY or NJ, my wife had a malfunctioning EZ-PASS reader and we traveled to Massachusetts. The second we saw an 'error' on the first toll we called EZ-PASS. They said they had disabled our EZ-PASS and sent us another one (which had been lost in the mail, but since...
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[12:46:16] <exec> 08└─> Why is the burden of proof for these fines so squarely on the accused? My guess, people in general (and/or people in power) believe that "the computer" is always right. Anyone want to chime in on how we got to this place? If grade schools had programming classes for everyone (even something very s...
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[12:46:18] <exec> 08└─I think this is when you call your local congress critter's office. A call from Representative (X) can be surprisingly effective (at least in some cases).
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[12:47:39] <exec> 08└─"I am not sure of what you are referring to" See; https://en.wikipedia.org In short, the way we pronounce vowels under certain conditions changes dramatically a few centuries back. Spellings remain conservative, which helps to keep the spoken dialects from diverging too far fr...
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[12:47:40] <exec> 08└─I pronounce it "squeal", which usually elicits a chuckle. I also call 'log4j' log for Jesus, but that's another subject.
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[12:52:15] <exec> 08└─Meh, just have some sentinel folders and files. If they get encrypted/changed for no good reason you probably have ransomware or some sort of malware. If you want to slow them down you could add honeypot folders with virtual files and folders inside that go on "forever". Then the ransomware might sp...
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[13:45:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:06] <exec> 08└─"First World" is the new "Third World." Let us all not forget the original definition of "Third World." [wikipedia.org] Non-alignment, anybody? Everything else, economically speaking, trickled into the perception.
[13:45:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 876 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:08] <exec> 08└─What complete and utter political horse shit. A) Government-provided healthcare is not now and never has been a hallmark of first-world countries. It is in fact an idea that first-world countries picked up from second-world countries. B) Government-provided healthcare is not in any way a necessary c...
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[13:45:10] <exec> 08└─All factors being equal, the criticism would be correct. However, there are (at least) three mayor differences: age structure, climate, and genetics. All three combined easily explain the current state of affairs despite worse measures and health systems in place in "third world" countries. Let's ju...
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[13:45:11] <exec> 08└─If I say vanilla ice cream is the best flavor, and I like it much better, but I always choose strawberry - am I a reasonable and trustworthy person? Self-proclaimed journalists, socialists, and communists: Go live in the places you think are better. Us "reprehensible" capitalists will continue to ac...
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[13:45:20] <exec> 08└─The harms you reprehensible "capitalists" are doing are unfortunately global. And you the harms spread to other native species that cannot live elsewhere. So we'll continue to complain, loudly, until you change your ways, no matter what part of the planet we, or you, are typing from.
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[13:45:31] <exec> 08└─Ahem: Senegal - 2.9 % aged 65+ India - 5.4 % aged 65+ UK - 18.0 % aged 65+ https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[13:45:39] <exec> 08└─You jest, but lots of people do see other groups, even within the same nation, as rivals and competitors, and want misfortune to fall upon them. The ambivalent political response is a reflection of this. They will even accept damage to themselves if those others are taking greater damage. They also...
[13:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:44] <exec> 08└─From Table 31a : Death Summary Information by Race/Ethnicity New York State - 2015 [ny.gov] 153,623 died that year, which is~ 421 deaths per day. Last month, New York State peaked at over 800 Covid deaths per day [msn.com], with over 500 a day dying from Covid-19 in New York City [nyc.gov] Note, oth...
[13:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:46] <exec> 08└─The US president is behind in the polls but the contest is close enough to make his re-election a real possibility.
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[13:45:48] <exec> 08└─no, this is a war with a cold
[13:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:51] <exec> 08└─Right - the level of poverty for humans globally has gone down dramatically because of capitalism and western medicine, and we all know how merciful nature herself is to pandas and all of the malaria, typhus, and coronavirus victims worldwide. Nature is a competition for survival, not a socialist/co...
[13:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:53] <exec> 08└─You're welcome! The only inferred opinion one could reasonably determine from my statement is that I'm currently living in the country which I believe to be the "best." That happens to be the case. Please point out the hypocrisy in any of my stated opinions, unless you're prepared to articulate some...
[13:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:55] <exec> 08└─One where the profit motive was likely given a higher priority than the well-being of its inhabitants, be they humans or other species. Just like capitalism, then. Let's note that if we believe the figures, they did a more effective job of limiting the spread of the virus within their own country th...
[13:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:57] <exec> 08└─socialist/communist utopian pipedream
[13:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:59] <exec> 08└─BTW, when I moved your scare quotes from "reprehensible" to "capitalists" it was quite deliberate. The US and UK have corrupted capitalism to take care of the rich guys and the largest corporations. It's not a free market.
[13:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:02] <exec> 08└─I can't claim to be a "world traveler" since I've "only" been to Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean, however... as compared to the U.S., Europe has quite a few more languages, much more "time in place" with buildings and institutions that stretch back 1000+ years, significantly more cultural diversit...
[13:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, look at all those third-world shitholes like Denmark and Norway and Finland. Government-payer healthcare is the fucking *worst.* How awful. Go get the 'rona and own some libs! I dare you!
[13:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:06] <exec> 08└─How does this address your issue of qualification? Are you willing to disenfranchise whoever skips those classes? The flip side to qualification is that if it's real, some will be disqualified. Aiming for the lofty goal of universal qualification is great, but only if you recognize that there are so...
[13:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:08] <exec> 08└─English is widely-spoken in several of them, as well as in Germany. Your ignorance is showing. Shoo that bee out of you bonnet, it's been stinging your last remaining brain cell and making you act the fool. More than usual I mean. Go match wits with a catfish, it's a more even battle...
[13:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:10] <exec> 08└─And before you say Coronavirus only spread because of capitalistic technology
[13:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:12] <exec> 08└─His MO is to conflate the two. And unless he's very wealthy himself, the term for this is "useful idiot." I've never understood the complete, global nihilism it takes to not only act against your own self-interest but willingly take down others in your position with you. And then they have the fucki...
[13:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah yeah, "who gives a f*ck about boomers" and all that, but airbourne ebola (or equivalent) is coming. Enjoy stewing in the ideology of doing nothing, and simply managing your own societies decline. Call me insane, but I'm happy to live somewhere (Australia) that has some ability to actually grapp...
[13:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:17] <exec> 08└─put too much focus on economy over lives
[13:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:19] <exec> 08└─Jefferson founded the party you speak of.
[13:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:21] <exec> 08└─Call me insane, but I'm happy to live somewhere (Australia) that has some ability to actually grapple with a pandemic.
[13:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:23] <exec> 08└─He was snickering at your grammar.
[13:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:38] <exec> 08└─Giving multiple cars the same license plate numbers is a wonderful idea for a government authority that wants to charge multiple people for the same trip through EZ Pass gates. It's the same government authority that pulled Bridgegate [wikipedia.org]. The same authority called the inner lane on the...
[13:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:15] <exec> 08└─And the Mafia aren't criminals, they just take business VARY seriously.
[13:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:02] <exec> 08└─Depending on the database, SQuirreL is also acceptable.
[13:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:04] <exec> 08└─You're both so, so wrong. Qi means "weird," as in 奇怪, which is clearly an ancient Chinese reference to Arik's choice of typeface.
[13:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:06] <exec> 08└─Shortscreen, what you say is the road to madness. It would lead to you pronounce the word, "Makudonarudozu," instead of the proper, the sensible, "Mickey-D's."
[13:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:08] <exec> 08└─I always thought that rhymed with "boogers" as a quasi-French, cum-English product such as "Worchester" being pronounced "Wooster."
[13:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:10] <exec> 08└─The stupid article doesn't even proclaim which pronunciation is proper so we can burn the heretics. I shined up my pitchfork for nothing.
[13:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, I am. At some point, I plan to get tested, and if it's positive (I've had no symptoms at all, so am either uninfected or asymptomatic and recovered) I plan to donate plasma when possible.
[13:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:56] <exec> 08└─Sounds like *socialism* ta me, boy..whah duh yew hayt uh-merrika?
[13:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:30] <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...
[13:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Longbow Arrows Caused Injuries Similar to Gunshot Wounds, Study Finds - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:58] <exec> 08└─History might have been a bit different if this guy was around and made stuff like this back then: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Stuff like this could have slowed the adoption of guns. 1000 musketeers vs 1000 arche...
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[14:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:09] <exec> 08└─it's a feature. That was when I reported some bug in BitBlt function that didn't work as per documentation. They knew it was a bug but can't fix it without breaking current programs. That was 25 years ago. Why do I still remember this?
[14:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:11] <exec> 08└─PASCAL Calling Convention Windows API functions are all declared as PASCAL calling convention . . . . left cleanup to be performed by the called function and usually only needed a single opcode to clean the stack at function end. It was likely due to execution and disk space concerns that Windows st...
[14:45:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 436 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:25] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that this myth of competence of the "First World" countries was a media creation, rather, than it being based on fact ? or, Were the "Third World" countries so incompetent, that even a semblance of competence was enough to be considered as superior ? I am reminded of the Dunning-Kruge...
[14:45:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:32] <exec> 08└─I think it's *far* too early to say. The initial spread was via international travel, almost exclusively a "first world" luxury, so they are going to be ahead of the curve. Now that we're starting to see traditional second and third world countries ramping up the situation on the ground is looking m...
[14:45:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 709 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:53] <exec> 08└─You should have highlighted age structure - cut and paste from my post below... (apologies to dupe post, but how else to do it?) Senegal - 2.9 % aged 65+ India - 5.4 % aged 65+ UK - 18.0 % aged 65+ Presumably this is something like a tail of a poisson distribution so the number aged 70+ is even more...
[14:46:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 363 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:01] <exec> 08└─From Table 31a : Death Summary Information by Race/Ethnicity New York State - 2015 [ny.gov] 153,623 died that year, which is~ 421 deaths per day. Last month, New York State peaked at over 800 Covid deaths per day [msn.com], with over 500 a day dying from Covid-19 in New York City [nyc.gov] Note, oth...
[14:46:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, look at all those third-world shitholes like Denmark and Norway and Finland. Government-payer healthcare is the fucking *worst.* How awful. Go get the 'rona and own some libs! I dare you!
[14:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:22] <exec> 08└─> are delusional about their country's actual power and wealth Woah there cowboy! US and Europe are not doing badly when it comes to power and wealth. In this case, the delusion aint so stupid. https://en.wikipedia.org(nominal) [wikipedia.org] United States 21,439,...
[14:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:24] <exec> 08└─They speak English well in all those places. Know that it is cold and dark for much of the year there. Alcoholism, depression, and suicide are rampant. In history there have been mass migrations from Scandinavia to other parts of the world, but no mass migrations from other parts of the world to Sca...
[14:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:26] <exec> 08└─For the 99%, economy is life. ... That's the real calculus surrounding the quarantines.
[14:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:29] <exec> 08└─For the 99%, economy is life.
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:31] <exec> 08└─They could have nullified rents during the pandemic but that would mean nullified mortgages . Can’t do that, those little old retired ladies need those retirement dividends so they can pay their rent. Wait, wasn’t rent cancelled?
[14:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:33] <exec> 08└─They speak English well in all those places.
[14:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:35] <exec> 08└─Somebody tell those Third Worlders their countries are better than the First World. They keep emigrating to my country. Why do they do this if their country is better? Has nobody told them? WHY DO THEY KEEP COMING?
[14:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:37] <exec> 08└─This article was written by a brainwashed left wing nutcase. The problem(s), and the stated causes of the problem(s) have absolutely nothing to do with one another. I guess I would expect as much from an article written in such a way that Britain's GOVERNMENT is expected to win the next election. Th...
[14:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:40] <exec> 08└─True capitalism is never achieved in the same way that true communism never is. It's much easier for the powerful to rig the system so they're the only ones to gain. There's always a tension. That said, a free market system, pure or not, is demonstrably better at delivering material wealth to more p...
[14:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─But but... you forgot Sweden and its recently privatised healthcare. It has been WONDERFUL! The righties were ecstatic [theguardian.com]. It's a pity costs then rose to be amongst the highest, and heathcare beds per 1000 fell to being the second lowest (the UKs NHS coming dead last) in Western Europ...
[14:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─Canada is a 51st state whose people can't pronounce "about" or "pasta" correctly. Just like Massachusetts.
[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you saying that, in your opinion, Trump's reelection is almost a given, or are you saying that he has no chance in hell ?
[14:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:48] <exec> 08└─That's a good thing. Everyone should learn another language. But not speaking Norwegian is not a real barrier to living in Norway (for example). If you're keen to move to Scandinavia, move now and learn the language there at your leisure. Immersion is the best way to learn, and I believe they even o...
[14:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:51] <exec> 08└─Contact tracing and isolation has proven ineffective. That was the initial plan. Otherwise, I only see big strawmen here. Price of the tests has never been an issue, only capacity. Even if that were true, there is no indication that this is what has kept infections low over there (I did argue to the...
[14:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:53] <exec> 08└─But Farsi isn't spoken much at all in Iraq. The main language is Arabic, with Kurdish being in the same family but not mutually intelligable with Farsi. Farsi speakers have a much better time with Pashto (spoken in Afghanistan)... so did you mean Afghanistan?
[14:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:55] <exec> 08└─Are you willing to disenfranchise whoever skips those classes?
[14:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:57] <exec> 08└─When someone here posts a rant about someone they accuse of being a "brainwashed left wing nutcase", reading of few lines of said rant almost invariably reveal them to be "right wing nutcases". Note that I'm not saying all right-wingers are nutcases, but this one clearly is. And a poorly educated on...
[14:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:00] <exec> 08└─They are just moving to where all their stuff that has been stolen and plundered for centuries is located.
[14:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:02] <exec> 08└─Being on top of the dung heap doesn't make it any less of a dung heap. We've got power yes we do, we've got wealth, yes we do, we're also a tiny minority of the world's population and strutting around like everybody is going to just fall in line because we say so... historically that tends to burn o...
[14:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:04] <exec> 08└─Stories are submitted by the community. If you want better stories, submit better stories. This is the HTML I use for my submissions: <p><a href=""></a>:</p> <p><blockquote></blockquote></p> <p></p> Fill in the blanks.
[14:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying Australia is perfect, and our government certainly sucks. The undeniably miserable bushfire response made our prime ministers grip on power somewhat shakey, so that played some part in him taking this pandemic more seriously... though he still managed to blunder a couple of times eg....
[14:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:08] <exec> 08└─Failure to clear brush and fight fires is not laudable.
[14:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:11] <exec> 08└─I'd say that's where targeted state welfare comes in - the UK's furlough and company bailout/loan schemes, or the US' distribution of $1,200 checks, for instance. No, that's not cheap (especially once you factor in loss of tax revenue from people just staying at home and not earning and spending as...
[14:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:13] <exec> 08└─How easily your balloon of ignorance got popped. Maybe you should reconsider your later-in-life switch to conservative ideology. 90% is so called common sense that falls apart in this more complicated modern world.
[14:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:15] <exec> 08└─I'm saying that Europeans bragging about being worldly when they've only traveled around Europe is no more impressive than Americans who have never left the US. NYC alone is home to more cultures than all of Europe.
[14:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:17] <exec> 08└─Lol, your swing away from the DNC led straight into the stupid bush.
[14:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:19] <exec> 08└─Yawn, true capitalism has existed but its failures get blamed on others. Typical capitalism gaslighting.
[14:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:22] <exec> 08└─Possibly, as I said, I'm an ignorant rube when it comes to that part of the world. I do know that Granddad was there for the fall of Faisal II (which is probably the source of my confusion with the language named Farsi - and do I feel ignorant about that, sure do... but not half as ignorant as most...
[14:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─You sure sound like the epitome of happiness... rage post much? Again? Every day?
[14:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:26] <exec> 08└─Hey Buzzy, you in here being stupid? Sweet! You're my rock bro!
[14:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:28] <exec> 08└─In particular those of the notional 1% that actually run the businesses (no doubt from home, or some other "safe" location), that are expecting their minions in the 99% to get back to work and take their chances. Lots of sociopaths being outed as a result of this, that's for sure.
[14:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:30] <exec> 08└─What will be interesting (to me) is if there is more natural immunity to COVID-19 in the "third world," much the way there was for Polio and similar diseases pre-vaccination.
[14:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:33] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate Sweden?
[14:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:35] <exec> 08└─If you're going to attack someone, then at least try not to gibber. Or is it beer o'clock where you are already?
[14:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:37] <exec> 08└─Contact tracing and isolation has proven ineffective in US
[14:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:39] <exec> 08└─Government-provided healthcare is not now and never has been a hallmark of first-world countries.
[14:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:41] <exec> 08└─"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."
[14:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:44] <exec> 08└─That's a nice way of saying that US is no better than one of the "African shithole countries"? In every other not-destitute nation, there are resources available to feed the population and not having to teeter-totter between famine and disease.. I honestly didn't believe that Trump America is choosi...
[14:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 4813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:00] <exec> 08└─It is possible to win (in my experience), but it takes a lot of patience and finally getting through to the right person. A couple years back, I took a few trips across a bridge in NY during the holidays. My experience when Massachusetts adopted cashless tolling was that it sometimes took a while to...
[14:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:01] <exec> 08└─My guess, people in general (and/or people in power) believe that "the computer" is always right. Anyone want to chime in on how we got to this place?
[14:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:03] <exec> 08└─I'd forgotten "Computers Don't Argue", thanks for that link. We've gotten much better at these things in the last 50 odd years...now we have Swatting, much quicker, no need for all that correspondence (yes, this is sarcasm).
[14:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:32] <exec> 08└─Why ? Because they're liberal ?
[14:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:52] <exec> 08└─Don't think! Feeeel the quality.
[14:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:10] <exec> 08└─Trump was right. [abc.net.au]
[14:50:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 591 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:29] <exec> 08└─The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, perhaps America's favorite children's story, is also an informed comment on the battle over free silver in the 1890s. The characters in the story represent real figures such as William Jennings Bryan. This paper interprets the allegory for economists and economic historia...
[14:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:21] <exec> 08└─Socialism is when you don't have a choice, you participate or else. Socialism only 'works' when there's a man with a gun to enforce participation. No one forced us to line up for flu vaccine; we merely observed that flu was worse than an hour in line on a subzero night. No one forced county health t...
[14:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:22] <exec> 08└─There's a UK doctor who has been watching and commenting on the series. Lately he's also been vlogging about the COVID experience at hospital: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:58] <exec> 08└─Thank you for this great example of how this distorted information has fooled idiots in to thinking the pandemic response measures is fearmongering.
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[15:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:07] <exec> 08└─That made sense on Mac OS but Windows was written in C and assembly. Classic Mac OS had large parts written in Pascal over time. While it might have bits *written* in Pascal, Windows was a C product through and through. The main reason to use stdcall vs cdecl is the space saving. Remember, WIndows 1...
[15:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:08] <exec> 08└─Because that bug hasn't been patched yet. It should be fixed when KB8653367997653213568990087532e67 arrives.
[15:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:11] <exec> 08└─If you want to reconfigure, you need to re-install.
[15:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 2097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:13] <exec> 08└─CP/M [ieee.org] was not so bad from that era but I don't hold the least bit of nostalgia from any version of Windows, especially the early ones up to and including 3.11. They were bloated, complicated, unsteady, unreliable, slow and crashy. They also were subject to "bit rot", needing frequent reins...
[15:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:15] <exec> 08└─I think these are the first pictures I've ever seen on SN. Not sure I like it.
[15:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:17] <exec> 08└─The technical reason is actually for performance. Windows is relinked (ala old UNIX kernels) with your mouse/kb/display drivers. The SDK has an entire document detailing this and changing it to do it dynamically. A lot of it is that Windows didn't support dynamic driver unloading until Windows Drive...
[15:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:19] <exec> 08└─Of all the shitty things Microsoft has done, and as terrible as they (and Windows 10) are for the computing industry and everything associated with it, one thing they did that puts almost every Linux distro to absolute shame is backwards binary compatibility. Linus insists on it, but the distros shi...
[15:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:22] <exec> 08└─We've always had the technical capability to post images, and we've done it for other original content before in the past as well as the rare site statistics post. That being said, demonstrating much of this article without images wouldn't be anywhere as clear.
[15:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:24] <exec> 08└─Honestly, IBM mainframes utterly destroy Windows in regards to backward compatibility. 50-60 years is entirely possible, although due to licensing, and lack of experience, I haven't dived into the topic. That being said, I may do something on mainframes in the future. The Linux kernel ABI is (relati...
[15:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:26] <exec> 08└─how to run Windows in "slow mode"
[15:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:28] <exec> 08└─I'd like to cover the three original operating systems for the PC 5150, DOS 1.0, CPM-86, and USCD-Pascal, the last which is almost entirely forgotten. I'm not sure what to say on CP/M aside from a lead-in to talking more about Digital Research and DR-DOS though.
[15:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:30] <exec> 08└─The first version of MS-DOS was not much other than an exact rip-off of CP/M. It didn't do much more than allow you to boot and then run your programs. CP/M was quite common in most computer-using offices, prior to Visicalc and then Lotus-1-2-3 [pingdom.com]. Though there were several dialects. Fro...
[15:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Addresses 111 Bugs for May Patch Tuesday - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:38] <exec> 08└─remote code execution (RCE) flaws in Microsoft Color Management (CVE-2020-1117)
[15:46:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:03] <exec> 08└─Third World: Any country outside of the United States of America. Except for Canada, which is just a frozen wasteland and not a real country anyway. (Most in the US actually believe this)
[15:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:23] <exec> 08└─You're the idiot if you cannot get that my point was he was praising how great Australia is at managing its affairs after complaining a couple months ago how Australia is ruined because of brush fires. (Sorry, I do not mean to call you an idiot because I know you are not one, but you did call me one...
[15:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:24] <exec> 08└─Mr Buzz, I'm not lookin' for trouble or anything but when you say... NYC alone is home to more cultures than all of Europe.
[15:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:26] <exec> 08└─WHY DO THEY KEEP COMING?
[15:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─I am not panning Australia. It's a lovely country with lovely people. (It has not been very nice to the aborigines, but as an American I really can't talk.) My larger point is that nobody knows what the right answer is with this thing. The WHO has alternately praised China and Sweden for their appro...
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─It's sabotage! [cia.gov]
[15:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03CCTalbert [6692] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:49] <exec> 08└─One might be under the impression that the intent of a license plate is to provide an easily used unique ID for each motor vehicle. That would be incorrect. The purpose of a license plate is to act as a visible receipt showing you've paid your personal property taxes, and to provide an easy way to i...
[15:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:51] <exec> 08└─For that matter, it used to be illegal to use the SSN for identification purposes. People started doing it anyway, and I think they changed the law.
[15:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:06] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but I believe the tracking just depends on loading the gif, not on playing it.
[15:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:31] <exec> 08└─I've of the view that you are justified in taking things into your own hands - there's no need to call the police, when you are simply defending your own rights.
[15:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:32] <exec> 08└─He was just standing his ground.
[15:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:35] <exec> 08└─> The drone operator has a right not to have their property destroyed. That particular right disappears the second he uses the drone to do something illegal on someone else's proper, for example. Rights are only rights while they don't infringe on others rights, and it's pretty clear that drones can...
[15:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:37] <exec> 08└─Laws should be the same as for any aircraft. Making investigation of such a crime more difficult doesn't make it any less of a crime, it makes it more of a crime. If you have a genuine concern about a drone, a better thing to point at it is a video camera. It probably has a limited flying duration....
[15:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:39] <exec> 08└─But I figured I'd comment to say this was the first time I've seen an actual 451 response: We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore a...
[15:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:41] <exec> 08└─If you can actually effect it with a genuine EMP, then the laws pertaining to nuclear weapons probably frown upon it. Anything less and you are talking about radio jamming, also a crime, but far more mundane.
[15:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:43] <exec> 08└─That's a very interesting point. If he could legitimately claim it was harassing his livestock could he shoot it down like he would a dog?
[15:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:39] <exec> 08└─Here, let me help. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.goodreads.com [goodreads.com] https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[15:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:05] <exec> 08└─And Joe Sickpack really doesn't care about whom he infects and ends up killing, either, would be my guess. Joe Sixpack also can't do math to calculate what the odds of death are should he with his pristine unexposed lungs gets it, let alone serious complications which may not kill him but make him r...
[15:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:06] <exec> 08└─Masks are also used because they are highly effective at preventing someone with the virus from shedding their particles in a way that someone else then readily picks up. The professional is not only concerned with him or herself but also that professional's patients. I do hope my mask protects me,...
[15:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:09] <exec> 08└─(Not N95's with relief valves, although they do force any particulates that pass into a much narrower field on exhalation. Regular obscuring masks. But then again, properly fitting and used N95 masks are actually very effective at protection from inhalation....)
[15:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─Biden didn't just vote yes. He pushed it in every way he could. To say he was just one of the morons who got duped (enough reason to despise him) is not just misleading, it's rewriting history. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] Biden did...
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[16:45:28] <exec> 08└─It's been a long time since you'd have to reboot Windows that often. Even 20 years ago, 5+ times/day was abnormal. I gained some respect for where they were headed around '98 or '99. We had a Windows machine that kept crashing, and the first impulse was to blame MS. When we dug into it and searched...
[16:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:29] <exec> 08└─Internally, the 8086 was a 16-bit processor, and thus could directly address 2^16 bits of memory at a time
[16:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:31] <exec> 08└─This was not a pleasant stroll down memory lane - it was more like the worst hike you've ever been on times eleven (ten's not high enough). I came from the UNIX world, where a flat, 32-bit memory model and a great shell and toolchain was pretty much taken for granted - an elegant, coherent system. I...
[16:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:34] <exec> 08└─Hungarian Notation applied to English: artThe adjHungarian nGovernment vHas vOrdered pnIts adjCivil nServants infToSpend artThe adjSame nAmount prepOf nCash prepOn adjOpenSource nProjects advAs pnThey vSpend prepOn adjProprietary nSoftware Makes things so much easier to read.
[16:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Addresses 111 Bugs for May Patch Tuesday - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:43] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Color Management
[16:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Addresses 111 Bugs for May Patch Tuesday - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:45] <exec> 08└─It's really a sandbox escape type flaw. It's only "remotely" exploitable if the user runs a trojan or visits a malicious website. It's not a vulnerability that involves a remote attacker connecting to some open port on the system.
[16:46:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─His MO is to conflate the two. And unless he's very wealthy himself, the term for this is "useful idiot." I've never understood the complete, global nihilism it takes to not only act against your own self-interest but willingly take down others in your position with you. And then they have the fucki...
[16:46:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 1623 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:58] <exec> 08└─But but... you forgot Sweden and its recently privatised healthcare. It has been WONDERFUL! The righties were ecstatic [theguardian.com]. It's a pity costs then rose to be amongst the highest, and heathcare beds per 1000 fell to being the second lowest (the UKs NHS coming dead last) in Western Europ...
[16:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 1791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:55] <exec> 08└─For several reasons I won't write up my similar story, but the gist of it was that there were mistakes by EZ-PASS that didn't even make sense. It was a friend's EZ-PASS. He hired me to drive some people and him on a trip. I don't have, and won't have, an EZ-PASS account. It took several calls and pa...
[16:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry to hear about your issue, too. Govt. and courts generally don't give a crap about a few people who get ripped off.
[16:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:13] <exec> 08└─Is that you Schrödinger?
[16:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:45] <exec> 08└─Interesting. At least they're up front about it instead of just a vague "unavailable" message or response.
[16:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 1594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:47] <exec> 08└─That you don't like the drone operator doesn't make violent attacks on his person or property legal. Even if he was there with undeniable criminal intent, violence against his person or property is not on the list of acceptable responses. Call the cops and/or sue the operator, vigilantism isn't acce...
[16:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:49] <exec> 08└─...when you are buying off the government to conceal your actions, what does that say about you?
[16:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:51] <exec> 08└─You're exactly correct- it helps the criminal who was invading someone's privacy. I don't advocate shooting down drones, but I also don't advocate for low-flying aircraft either.
[16:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:53] <exec> 08└─Many privacy statutes recognize that using unconventional or technological tools and methods to view private property is invasive and illegal. This means using a ladder or crane to gain a view you would not normally have into someone's property can be illegal. Even a high powered zoom lens to take p...
[16:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:56] <exec> 08└─> Long as he can convince the authorities he thought it was a flying dog, should be ok. When pigs can fly!
[16:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:58] <exec> 08└─Minnesotan here. We are not "duty to retreat."
[16:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:00] <exec> 08└─If your right to property disappears the second you use it to do something illegal then wouldn't the farmer lose the right to his farm the second he failed to meet the letter of the complex and sometimes self-contradictory laws and regulations governing his business? If it's not his farm then the dr...
[16:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:02] <exec> 08└─Ok, correction. No duty to retreat in your home. But overall gun laws aren't bad here, certainly not like the coasts.
[16:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:56] <exec> 08└─I’ve been working in SQL for 30 years and nearly everyone uses them interchangeably while absolutely no one gives the flyingest of fucks if one is more “correct” than the other.
[16:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Turns 120 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:59] <exec> 08└─Where does the Shaggy Man, Mombi, the Nome King, Tik-Tok and perhaps the Wheelers fit in with this interpretation?
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[17:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:31] <exec> 08└─Isn't there someplace where I can just download the binary Hello?
[17:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:32] <exec> 08└─The true reason why the 8086 had that segmented memory model is that Intel wanted to enable automatic translation of machine code from 8080 to 8086.
[17:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:34] <exec> 08└─From the Wikipedia page you linked: The iAPX 432 enlarged address space over the 8080 was also limited by the fact that linear addressing of data could still only use 16-bit offsets, somewhat akin to Intel's first 8086-based designs
[17:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03throckmorten [3380] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:36] <exec> 08└─You should have tried doing this in Modula-2 :) My college thesis was a Win 3.1 app written in JPI M2 that required real mode to the NIC. Reminds me of more than a few sleepless nights. PROCEDURE WinMain(hInstance: Windows.HANDLE; hPrevInstance: Windows.HANDLE; lpszCmdLine: Windows.LPSTR; cmdShow: I...
[17:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:38] <exec> 08└─blame is what u get, when the masses are kept uneducated... they should have had a ramtest option at boottime, maybe with the bitfade test as option, like linux now... they should have drivers usermode in the early days, instead of waiting to, what windows 7? all in all, i think, if they made the "c...
[17:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Addresses 111 Bugs for May Patch Tuesday - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:49] <exec> 08└─Makes you wonder if there's also a Microsoft Gender Management.
[17:47:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:26] <exec> 08└─Contact tracing and isolation has proven ineffective in US
[17:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:56] <exec> 08└─The drone operator being wrong doesn't make the shooting right. There is room for EVERYONE here to be in the wrong.
[17:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:58] <exec> 08└─There is room for EVERYONE here to be in the wrong.
[17:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:00] <exec> 08└─Using your argument google maps is an invasion of privacy. If you're worried about people seeing your illegal acts then maybe you could always stop doing them?
[17:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:54] <exec> 08└─I pronounce it like "suckle"
[17:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:55] <exec> 08└─I prefer to use "squeal".
[17:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:57] <exec> 08└─Pronounced as "router", no, wait, "router". I mean "router".
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[18:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:07] <exec> 08└─Recently … Elon Musk’s Boring Company Finishes Digging Las Vegas Tunnels
[18:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:09] <exec> 08└─The Seoul of a new machine.
[18:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:11] <exec> 08└─"But Musk is said to want to start construction extremely soon and aims to have Model Y vehicles coming out of the plant by the end of the year." That would be a remarkably short amount of time for any car company to build a new factory from scratch. Last year, it took Tesla almost a year to build i...
[18:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:46] <exec> 08└─No, segmentation was not directly due to the 'rush'. Reality was that back in the days that the 8086 was designed (mid 1970's or thereabouts), segmented memory architectures were quite common, as were paged memory architectures, and no clear winner had been shaken out yet. The one difference was tha...
[18:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:47] <exec> 08└─I just uploaded the disk image to github [github.com] Both the MARKED and UNMARKED versions are on it.
[18:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:49] <exec> 08└─Somewhere in between there was the 8088, a 16bit processor with a 8bit data bus. Since it was cheaper to buy and easier to integrate than the 8086 ( most of the supporting chip from that era had only 8bit for data) IBM selected that chip for the original XT PC. One of the first project I had in coll...
[18:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:51] <exec> 08└─and USCD-Pascal ...
[18:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:54] <exec> 08└─It's hard to think back to the days of having only 256 KB of memory. Not 256 GB, but 256 KB. Those were fun days though.
[18:48:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 1927 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:02] <exec> 08└─Forget duplicate tags, I've gotten several charges sent to me repeatedly for $0.50 to $2.00 or so that simply can't be sorted out with the private company running this system. I get a nasty letter every few months and then dispute them every few months to no avail. The picture clearly shows a differ...
[18:48:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:56] <exec> 08└─> The drone operator has a right not to have their property destroyed. That particular right disappears the second he uses the drone to do something illegal on someone else's proper, for example. Rights are only rights while they don't infringe on others rights, and it's pretty clear that drones can...
[18:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:14] <exec> 08└─No duty to retreat in your own fucking home? Way to protect your natural born rights, you fucking rebel! Minnesota is fucking pitiful. Don't forget your burka when you go outside, brainwashed Dhimmis.
[18:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:15] <exec> 08└─stfu, you stupid fucking bitch.
[18:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:17] <exec> 08└─You usually write more intelligently.
[18:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, cannot buy or sell handguns over there, or even carry a long gun without some kind of permit. I'm not sure how people hunt over there if you cannot carry a shotgun on public land. Seems you would need at least three different licenses or permits to shoot a deer, and you're still breaking some...
[18:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:22] <exec> 08└─Actually, you have a very good point about Google Maps. Certain aspects of Google Maps' Street View are not legal everywhere. [wikipedia.org] They have been fined for violations in the past and forced to remove or blur location, vehicle, and personal images. Obviously things vary depending on locale...
[18:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:58] <exec> 08└─Small disturbances like off by one errors?
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[19:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:10] <exec> 08└─I dont think it will be entirely new. Probably start with an existing building and just ship the current fab from CA to TX. Then just expand the warehouse and ramp up.
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:11] <exec> 08└─Only if they turn the frogs gay.
[19:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:52] <exec> 08└─You say there was a Windows 1 SDK that contained a special purpose linker... I wonder if that linker is the one that creates the "mtswslnkmcjklsd" padding that can be seen repeatedly in old exe files. Another thing to mention about hPrevInstance on 16-bit Windows is that you can start 10 instances o...
[19:47:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:09] <exec> 08└─For the 99%, economy is life. ... That's the real calculus surrounding the quarantines.
[19:47:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:42] <exec> 08└─Government-provided healthcare is not now and never has been a hallmark of first-world countries.
[19:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 1647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:15] <exec> 08└─Dude the first thing Washington did after the founding of the country (before the constitutional congress) was conscript a bunch of people to go put down the Whiskey Rebellion in Kentucky, because those upstarts should pay their 0.5 percent tax on their bartered hooch while the east coast corporate...
[19:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:22] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of singing "Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit! With my spear and Magic HELMET!" [youtube.com]
[19:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:23] <exec> 08└─Ok, I'll bite. What right was being violated? Not a generic right, but one enumerated by law that the use of force is justified in protecting?
[19:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:25] <exec> 08└─[Citation needed]. Which privacy statute applied in Minnesota in the location the drone was flying in?
[19:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TapeApe [2146] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:28] <exec> 08└─Well, there you go. Get yourself a drone-hunting permit, but be conservation-minded about it. No trophy hunting, just shoot for the pot.
[19:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:30] <exec> 08└─Excellent question. I'm familiar with searching my own state statutes and regulations, but not Minnesota(or other states). Any ideas which section of law for Minnesota would be a good place to start looking?
[19:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:07] <exec> 08└─This whole book looked at this phenomena in depth. 40 Years ago. I got into it trying to understand control systems and turbulence. I later found it interesting in making encryption algorithms. Yes, my fart could initiate a typhoon on the other side of the planet! ( But many other things are also in...
[19:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:59] <exec> 08└─Hence my comparison with Rube Goldberg: pointlessly complicated mechanical machines. It's interesting, of course, but as an engineer I simply would never build something like this because it's so inefficient and I can accomplish the task in a better, simpler way with available technology.
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[20:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:10] <exec> 08└─No, that's Dallas, and those cornfed Blondes are a little thicker than your average Anime waifus. No problem with thick hicks, though. Austin is a California-style experiment to figure out how fast progressives and multiculturalism can trash a good city. I'll give it another 5 years before it goes f...
[20:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:12] <exec> 08└─"full dump" is so derogatory. Call it San Francisco instead.
[20:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:14] <exec> 08└─Blah blah, same shit different decade. I lived there 30 years ago and you heard the same kind of crap. "Keep Austin Weird" has been around for 20 years.
[20:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:16] <exec> 08└─I'm happy that Elon Musk is moving industry back to the United States! Progressivania has been stealing American worker's jobs for even longer than China.
[20:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:18] <exec> 08└─Powered by red pills [latimes.com]
[20:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:21] <exec> 08└─Yes my young padewan, let the hate flow through you.
[20:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:23] <exec> 08└─Well, they ignored the signs forty and fifty years ago. "Keep Austin beautiful, neuter your liberals." Now, they're overrun with liberals.
[20:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:25] <exec> 08└─Well, Lilly isn't very likeable anyway. And, the red pills aren't hers, even. All she did was co-produce the movie. Not like she was the author or anything . . .
[20:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Addresses 111 Bugs for May Patch Tuesday - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:18] <exec> 08└─Sandbox escapes are different, actually. Those are classified as "Elevation of Privilege" attacks. Most remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities require Hax0r to get you to interact with $content and that content is abused to execute code provided by the Hax0r. A small subset of exceptions are "n...
[20:47:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:00] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying because we have a bunch of land (about 5% of the planet's land, much of it desert) that staying immersed 100% in our culture (which comprises less than 5% of the total world population) provides sufficient perspective on the world to make decisions about how to interact with other...
[20:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 2036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:31] <exec> 08└─The more I engage in these discussions, the more frustrated I become that I'm not a wordsmith. You've raised excellent points and questions, but it can all turn into a bunch of philosophical questions and more discussions, partly hinging on diction, definitions, colloquialism, etc. Define "happy". H...
[20:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:32] <exec> 08└─A license plate is something Mexicans steal to commit crimes in situations where they're unable to steal your whole car. I don't know about New England Jews (apparantly no property theft has to happen to get Jewed by their system) but we on Mexican border cities suffer that fate on a regular basis....
[20:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:50] <exec> 08└─LOL more like Schrödnigger, right?
[20:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06All Your Reaction GIFs Now Belong to Facebook, as It Buys Giphy for $400M - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:51] <exec> 08└─It's not about making money anymore. It's about stopping memes from propagating. ZuckerJew knows his goose is cooked, so his only option is to go all-in with the censorship by any means necessary. Packing his Ministry of Truth with Soros' goons, pivoting to China, etc. And that includes stopping mem...
[20:49:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:11] <exec> 08└─No need to claim to be a cop, farmers have legal rights to shoot dogs threatening livestock even in no-gun-rights places like the UK. Long as he can convince the authorities he thought it was a flying dog, should be ok.
[20:49:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:13] <exec> 08└─He should just claim that he is a cop
[20:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:43] <exec> 08└─whoever said "chinese chars" are picto grams originally is talking shit. no one making up pictograms with a mediocre sense of logic would not consider a "magical fire embodied into life" pictogram to not have a circle in the middle. maybe, just maybe, it's just phony and the pictogram creator knew i...
[20:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:45] <exec> 08└─Racist motherfucker. Honey Bunches of Oats is for rich White Boys, the real White Trash prefer Oh's.
[20:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:07] <exec> 08└─now i know why i ended up the way i did: the teacher was giving potential lessons (as witnessed...)
[20:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of a Third Kingdom of Particles - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:08] <exec> 08└─anonymous coward runs on alternating 3-phase current, sry.
[20:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Even Small Disturbances can Trigger Catastrophic Storms - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:30] <exec> 08└─euler or was it gauss, had a building/observatory built with no iron content .. to study magnets and stuff?
[20:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:45] <exec> 08└─Kung flu 1.3 : It conveys everything, nature, origin, version, and it has that martial undertone.
[20:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:47] <exec> 08└─my hope is that we "domesticate" sars2: going in and out and in and out of humans long enough (attenuation?) and avoiding going back to original host. this way it will probably get less lethal and just join the club of other corona viruses that infect humans (another type of common cold)... one wond...
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[21:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crypto-Mining Campaign Hits European Supercomputers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:06] <exec> 08└─The best cryptomining malware target, for a while at least.
[21:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:28] <exec> 08└─You're welcome. Come try the multicultural food, roadkill and taters must be getting boring by now!
[21:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:29] <exec> 08└─Republicans. The national shame of the US. Do your kids even talk to you anymore?
[21:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:31] <exec> 08└─No, and I wish you would follow your parent's example! Get off the lawn, kid!
[21:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:34] <exec> 08└─He co-directed with his brother, as in Eberts review "The directors are Larry and Andy Wachowski" [rogerebert.com]
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:36] <exec> 08└─Since you asked, there are some pretty smart Texans, outside of Austin. Drove around Texarkana today, and there's not a dine-in restaurant open it seemed. Just drive-throughs. Oh, wait, what's that, with all the cars clustered around? A gas station? But the sign says "The Burger Joint". Hmmmm - gott...
[21:45:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 1109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:57] <exec> 08└─Of all the shitty things Microsoft has done, and as terrible as they (and Windows 10) are for the computing industry and everything associated with it, one thing they did that puts almost every Linux distro to absolute shame is backwards binary compatibility. Linus insists on it, but the distros shi...
[21:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:18] <exec> 08└─I get that the pictures help make it understandable, but I would hate to see more of that. It feels wrong here for one, but more to the point, this place is a respite from other forums with avatars and embedded video links, memes, graphical emoticons and other crap. There's also something to be said...
[21:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:20] <exec> 08└─It's on my TODO list, but it's a few places down. UCSD Pascal shipped as a free standing OS for Apple II, PC IBMs and a bunch of others. It's really quite a bizarre thing because the whole thing is in pcode and it's pretty clear using it that what they're using on 8-bit Apple II is basically the sam...
[21:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:22] <exec> 08└─The actual behavior is a bit different. if hPrevInstance is set to NULL, you could just signal the running process if its class is available to launch a new window, or in the case of CARDFILE, just bring it to the front. There's loads of apps that used to have issues with this which got fixed on Win...
[21:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:24] <exec> 08└─Forgot to address the second part. I actually remember reading about that garbage as padding bytes. I posted the binaries below, but that sort of artifact could also come from the compiler's OMF files, and Borland C and Watcom C could both generate those. Technically, Watcom C can generate Windows 1...
[21:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:26] <exec> 08└─It should be noted that its *not* an embedded video. It's a screenshot that is a link because I didn't want to iframe in YouTube, and we're hosting all assets here on SN; no third party. We do respect our users privacy. If there's really a lot of people who dislike this (no offense, you're the only...
[21:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─I was speaking more generally -- pictures being the camel's nose and such. I don't want to sound like a whining asshole -- it is obvious much work went into TFS and I trust SN more than anywhere else to make good decisions about privacy and such. It was just sort of shocking to see pictures here --...
[21:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:04] <exec> 08└─Yes you are.
[21:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:05] <exec> 08└─Obviously not, he wasn't looking for a conversation.
[21:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:45] <exec> 08└─Ouch, we got some real flat earth level dimwits around here. Just going by simple reported facts you are wrong. Maybe you'll grow out of your infantile mindset.
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[22:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Crypto-Mining Campaign Hits European Supercomputers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:07] <exec> 08└─Jureca, Judac and Juwels were all designed to make money for Khazar Jews. Positioning them in Germany is the perfect cover.
[22:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crypto-Mining Campaign Hits European Supercomputers - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:09] <exec> 08└─That's because Germany is the cornerstone of the EU, and the EU is run by Khazar Jews with no loyalty to any one nation, or even the entire union. Khazar Jews go where the money is, and if the money ain't there anymore, they're now China's best friend. Ask David Zuckerburg from Facebook or pretty mu...
[22:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:35] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Elon will get right to this after fixing the water in Flint, MI like he promised.
[22:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:37] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of Connecticut [youtube.com].
[22:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:26] <exec> 08└─Brings back memories of learning to program Windows, and OS/2, from a pair of books from Charles Petzold. It wasn't pretty, but you learned the real nuts and bolts of the system with him.
[22:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:28] <exec> 08└─I, for one, agree with hemo. Jarring.
[22:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─A more worthy target of retro nostaligia would be the Apple ][ series. Those came with schematic diagrams, instruction manuals [apple2online.com], and in some cases, the source code. They were expensive as hell
[22:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hank Investigates: Incorrectly Charged for EZPass Tolls - 1902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:55] <exec> 08└─"How in the world did anyone thing that giving the same license plate number to multiple vehicles was a good idea?" Because it predates them needing the plates to be machine-readable. A MA cop tracking a "1234" commercial plate and a "1234" passenger plates can distinguish between them easily enough...
[22:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:47] <exec> 08└─Still won't mention Pence also pushed for it. Since Pence was right there with them, your comments are totally pointless. He was duped, yea, BFD. At least he admits it was a bad vote. Where is Pence's retraction? Oh that's right, Theocracy pushing Pence was 'forgiven' by Cheeto, so all is well. Seri...
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[23:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warrant Issued for Senator Richard Burr's Phone and iCloud Account for Insider Trading - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:05] <exec> 08└─Notice how the FBI is attempting to smear him by implying that he used the same iPhone device as several recent jihadi terrorists. Guilt by association. Fortunately he has a clear cut defense. All he needs to do us tell the judge that his pa learned him to "buy low and sell high" and he was just fol...
[23:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Warrant Issued for Senator Richard Burr's Phone and iCloud Account for Insider Trading - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:07] <exec> 08└─It's a goddamn shame but allows us wide latitude to take out others including "fifth-columnist Feinstein" and the lesser-known-who-wasn't-part-of-this-scandal Susan Davis and others like her.
[23:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Warrant Issued for Senator Richard Burr's Phone and iCloud Account for Insider Trading - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:09] <exec> 08└─He is getting the brunt of this but there are others who are going down as well.
[23:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warrant Issued for Senator Richard Burr's Phone and iCloud Account for Insider Trading - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:11] <exec> 08└─Unhhh... this is a warrant to acquire evidence, not for his arrest.
[23:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warrant Issued for Senator Richard Burr's Phone and iCloud Account for Insider Trading - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:13] <exec> 08└─Burr screwed up he did not do what all the other Senators and Congresscritters do. They get their spouse to do it.
[23:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warrant Issued for Senator Richard Burr's Phone and iCloud Account for Insider Trading - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:15] <exec> 08└─"Us"? What "us"? This has nothing to do with you, it's a squabble among your ruling class.
[23:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warrant Issued for Senator Richard Burr's Phone and iCloud Account for Insider Trading - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:17] <exec> 08└─This needs to be a non-issue. Simplify this by requiring all stocks owned by candidates running for congress either be sold immediately upon filing to run for office, or place the stocks into a trust that isn't allowed to sell them. If they aren't elected, and they put the stocks into the trust, the...
[23:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:55] <exec> 08└─Do you know of a vacant building near Austin large enough to handle auto production? The reason they moved into Fremont was there was a huge auto fabrication plant existing there. Wasn't that hard to retool and start production in Alameda County. Plus there was a core of trained workers there. Wonde...
[23:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:56] <exec> 08└─Musac has no soul.
[23:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports: Tesla Plans to Build a New Car Factory in Texas.. or Oklahoma - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:58] <exec> 08└─Austin was/is the center of the food truck craze in Texas. They spread out from there to Fort Worth and Dallas and north to Odessa and Midland and south to Houston. If they're in Texarkana now, hell they're probably already in Little Rock. You better look around they might be following you to Ft. Sm...
[23:48:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:07] <exec> 08└─For the 99%, economy is life.
[23:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Shoots Down Drone, Gets Hit With Felony Charges in Minnesota - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:29] <exec> 08└─I would love to know who modded this insightful. Made my day.
[23:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:29] <exec> 08└─Latin predates Christianity and its monotheism, and was the language of Ancient Rome, which was a polytheistic society that worshiped gods like Saturn, Neptune, and Mars, among many others. So which god gave us Latin?
[23:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:31] <exec> 08└─You seem to have some issues with reality. 1. SQL is pronounced "sequel" whether you like it or not. Proof: countless people actually pronouncing it that way, and it appears to be a majority of people who actually know what SQL is and what it stands for. 2. Any products name "sequels" before the inv...
[23:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From iOS to SQL: the World’s Most Incorrectly Pronounced Tech Terms - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:33] <exec> 08└─You've got to be kidding. The reality is that 99% of people who actually use SQL *today* call it "sequel", and almost none of them remember some long-dead predecessor from the 1960s or early 70s, nor were most of them even alive then. There's no "legacy support" for this thing just like there's no l...
[23:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All About That Bass – Marble Machine X Keeps Growing - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:09] <exec> 08└─Oh your point is well taken and overall I agree. However I think I see where our differences lie. You are an engineer, and see the over-complexity as a detriment. I am an artist, and see it as beauty. After all the idea is to do it without available technology. If you use that why not just make a MI...
[23:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower - 1751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:16] <exec> 08└─> Come ti permetti rispondermi così, cafone?! Come ti permetti DI rispondermi così, cafone? Plus cafone is not very current, and mostly used by self appointed upper class women, so I would rather say: come si permette di rispondermi... > 1) Nowhere in the Sole 24 24 ore > articolo does it say Cont...
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