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[14:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Worth their Salt: Researchers Report First Case of Hexagonal NaCl - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:51] <exec> 08└─What's any of this got to do with COVID-19, sonny? And where's the mask that should be on your face?? I ain't gonna stand here and let you whippersnapper infect me! I am 75 years old and I plan to live for another 75 years! Get that mask on your face before I call the police!! Now, me, I don't wear...
[14:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worth their Salt: Researchers Report First Case of Hexagonal NaCl - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:53] <exec> 08└─Gate dielectrics for FETs is one thing, but have they checked whether hexagonal salt adds another dimension of flavor to potato chips?
[14:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worth their Salt: Researchers Report First Case of Hexagonal NaCl - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:55] <exec> 08└─I'll hazard a guess that hex NaCl is just as water soluble as regular cubic table salt. Packaging better be hermetic (glass?) to keep out humidity.
[14:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Worth their Salt: Researchers Report First Case of Hexagonal NaCl - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:57] <exec> 08└─Wah! I want my safe space. I need to get a tattoo and gender reassignment surgery. -Every Millennial
[14:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worth their Salt: Researchers Report First Case of Hexagonal NaCl - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:59] <exec> 08└─... - Silent Generation
[14:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worth their Salt: Researchers Report First Case of Hexagonal NaCl - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:01] <exec> 08└─but have they checked whether hexagonal salt adds another dimension of flavor to potato chips?
[14:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worth their Salt: Researchers Report First Case of Hexagonal NaCl - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:03] <exec> 08└─would be cool if salt and superglue could be used to make PV-panels, eh?
[14:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:14] <exec> 08└─I already noticed what's happening on Wayback, too often to slip ignored as a technical glitch: When a politically controversial site[1] gets destroyed, often by just removing its database backend while keeping a domain husk still visible, Wayback's response is culling the most informative pages off...
[14:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:16] <exec> 08└─The "context" contains factual information, marked as being a Wayback Machine addition, nothing from what was archived is missing. So... why are those idiots protesting?
[14:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:18] <exec> 08└─A few years after that again: "You dweebs though corporate America was Liberal?! Heh! Anyway no LGBT content here; this is a family archive site."
[14:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:20] <exec> 08└─Recent victim example is David Icke's website
[14:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:22] <exec> 08└─So next step is letting them update articles like they do on the live version. We printed lies so let's change the headline or text silently and nobody can call us on it. Have screenshots? They fake. Just check out the wayback machine....
[14:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:24] <exec> 08└─This already happened in the Netherlands. Respected social geographer and retired professor in statistics Maurice de Hond has been blogging and youtubing about what he finds wrong about the lockdown measures. Some idiot managed to take down his Youtube posting (since reinstated minus 40000 views or...
[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─Unless, of course, it doesn't happen that they change the title/content. And until now, this FA included, you have no support in reality that they did.
[14:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─Other than banner popups being undesirable in every situation (those annoying cookie notices, newsletter spam, paywall screeching), what disturbs me is the login requirement. I have never considered an archive.org account, what purpose do they serve other than uploading content (and now to "create f...
[14:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─So... why are those idiots protesting?
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Applying Physics to Understanding the Mystery of Consciousness - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:45] <exec> 08└─your maker will disassemble you and repurpose your parts when you're outlived your usefulness
[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Applying Physics to Understanding the Mystery of Consciousness - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─Indeed all depends on $SCIENCE, e.g. if I were designed by the same SCIENCE!!! that is performing the lot of studies nowadays, I'd be a rocket launcher.
[14:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Applying Physics to Understanding the Mystery of Consciousness - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:48] <exec> 08└─Demo-crats, impossible. Res-Public-ans, impossible. This is why they were counted as a third group in the eerily realistic looking experiment.
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Applying Physics to Understanding the Mystery of Consciousness - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─As opposed to the Cannanite Genocide Fairy whose ineffable, omnipresent boot you've been trying to deepthroat since childhood, you drooling Opus Dei fanatic...?
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Applying Physics to Understanding the Mystery of Consciousness - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─More or less, though words like "feel" and "emotional" are likely to be misunderstood by some readers. Spock may suppress his emotions, but human P-zombies will still have emotions and feelings that affect their thoughts and actions and they can describe them in detail as well. The key thing is that...
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Loses its First Rocket Shortly After Engine Ignition - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─Hope they do better next time. But - what is the advantage of launching from a 747? Is there any point?
[14:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:49] <exec> 08└─If you can reliably recall sentences that long with punctuation and all those prepositions EXACTLY... you're a better man than me. I can't when I have to create a NEW password every 3 months. My issues: There are only so many memorable sentences. You can forget your new sentence because your head is...
[14:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:51] <exec> 08└─No need for a password when you post AC.
[14:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:53] <exec> 08└─Recite three different sha256 hashes from memory. Most site leaks are gobbled up by bots and reused as-is. Unless you're being specifically targeted, it's not worth the effort to try to figure out your password algorithm as long as it is sufficiently complex. Many things that are trivial for a human...
[14:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:55] <exec> 08└─Except for the number of times that they've had vulnerabilities exposed, the last one being in September of 2019.
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:57] <exec> 08└─you need to use a sequence referenced to some real world sequence.
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Space Programme Targets July Launch for Mars Mission - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─It is not unreasonable to think of a murderous genocidal totalitarian regime as enemies.
[14:28:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:04] <exec> 08└─SysAdm. Akbar says: "It's a trap!"
[14:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:47] <exec> 08└─MS did copy Stacker, they were sued, and lost.
[14:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:49] <exec> 08└─I do Linux system administration as part of my job, so I can Frankenstien almost any combination of software on most Linux distributions. But for most people who might want to use Linux, I think the path of least pain is an Ubuntu flavor or maybe Linux Mint, because then chances are good that anythi...
[14:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:51] <exec> 08└─You have made assumptions that are not supported by any evidence. You seem to think that I only use computers that have systemd inside them. Not so, I use, currently, 14 computers carrying out such tasks as a software defined radio for aeronautical transmissions, security functions inside the home a...
[14:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:53] <exec> 08└─Your username suggests you are a woman, and you work for Microsoft. Could you please also do me a favor and submit a few patches to the systemd project? Then just by introducing yourself and listing your work in Linux community gatherings you could cause our most toxic members to spontaneously combu...
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[15:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:39] <exec> 08└─At the time I was sysadmin for a network of Suns, with disk partitions NFS mounted willy nilly with no issues. My Windows counterpart spent hours trying to network the Windows boxes only to teach me new ways to swear. Fun times.
[15:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:41] <exec> 08└─What's sorta sad is the Sun set the standard for UNIX filesharing by porting NFS to everyone, and never really profitted from it. The fact that Oracle bought the corpse of Sun Microsystems was just insult to injury.
[15:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:15] <exec> 08└─If a political concept of free speech is genuinely honest and candid, and not just some partisan propaganda stunt trick, then the free speech must be granted to everyone, even to uninformed, stupid, disoriented or even adversaries. Otherwise, it is not free speech but a false distraction of mind.
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Applying Physics to Understanding the Mystery of Consciousness - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─Although to be fair to you, it's a slippery concept to describe in informal English. Someone can make a case that words like "vivid", "qualitative" and "experience" could apply to an unconscious P-zombie as well. I mean, if their objectively observable physical behavior is identical to a conscious b...
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Loses its First Rocket Shortly After Engine Ignition - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─you can point the rocket down, have it enter denser athmosphere, which compressed at the intact shock-cone, eliminates the need to carry oxydizer then after getting to about 11km/sec, pull up and cost to orbit ... oh wait, that's something else: "the virgin hunter".
[15:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─Right where it can be discovered or exposed by warrant.
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:40] <exec> 08└─I'm not on the run from the law. The threat to me is hackers or forgetting my own passwords. Besides, gmail will cough up my data when served with a warrant anyway.
[15:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03WeekendMonkey [5209] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:42] <exec> 08└─I would settle for forcing all websites to support the same password rules. My ISP still doesn't support special characters. Other sites allow special characters, but only one of the ones they chose (especially annoying are the ones that don't tell you this until you've typed in the password).
[15:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:44] <exec> 08└─A typical middle class person will have a checking account, two or three credit cards, a brokerage account or two, a car loan, and a mortgage, all of which might be under separate accounts.
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:47] <exec> 08└─Who do you trust to run that single sign-on? Facebook? Google? Apple? Amazon? Anyone big enough to run something of that scale, will have reasons not to trust them.
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:49] <exec> 08└─Actually, that's very true. I have an account here. Have from the beginning. But almost never use it. I post AC because I don't care about getting attribution for it, nor do I want to spend time voting on stuff. Works well. The password for this site is in an encrypted volume on a thumb drive. Somew...
[15:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Begins Crackdown on Unvetted Virus Blood Tests - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:48] <exec> 08└─Not quite. You have a point but you haven't accounted for the latent period [wikipedia.org] of the infection. And there is at least one study that suggests the total incubation period [nih.gov] is far shorter, around 5 days and similar to SARS. I suppose one might still be asymptomatic and shedding,...
[15:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:20] <exec> 08└─That kind of power dissipation is hardly novel in consumer electronics; any old Pentium 4 heatsink laying around should do the trick. ;) But typically, that wattage would be distributed among dozens of emitters covering a lot of area, such as an 8 foot linear fixture. GP said nothing to suggest it w...
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:21] <exec> 08└─Oops, actually GGP - the one who suggested comparing a 100W incandescent setup to a 100W LED setup.
[15:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:23] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes. Buy a new vehicle, and if you love somewhere cold, get block heaters and prepare to leave it running all night in the winter if you have to go to work in the morning.
[15:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:25] <exec> 08└─and if you love somewhere cold
[15:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:51] <exec> 08└─I think we are actually agreeing with each other. Those that need to build software from scratch will know how to do it, for the others the repos usually suffice.
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[16:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:49] <exec> 08└─I believe we used Netware (was it the P2P solution du-jour?) I remember coax cables, 50ohm terminators, and users who couldn't fathom why they would possibly want their computer to be on a network. One application was to shuttle data across a hospital (to replace a tape drive+sneaker net solution) -...
[16:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:51] <exec> 08└─I moved to a new project based on Windows 3.11 from UNIX, and ran into this daily crash hell that Windows 3.11 was. At least once a day, and usually one day a week was two crashes. On one hand it was good that it crashed so often that we saved early and often. We didn't have backups of the PC's we r...
[16:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:53] <exec> 08└─Man, this is bringing back nightmares. GPFs, BSODs, and just everything constantly falling apart. It was so bad that Windows 95 was a substantial improvement, which is saying something.
[16:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:55] <exec> 08└─I used to work at a place in the second half of the 1990s that was running MS-DOS/Windows 3.11 on Pentium II machines. The network was Token Ring ("Ethernet is unreliable" they insisted). We used WordPerfect for editing documents and Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets. DOS/Windows would crash left, right...
[16:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:57] <exec> 08└─The Winsock.DLLs paid a good portion of my salary when I was in support. Bugs involving incompatible versions were common, and users, even in dial-up days found ways to get multiple versions installed. We'd rename them (never delete, company policy for obvious reasons) until we were left with just t...
[16:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:59] <exec> 08└─It's pretty dreadful when you compare it with the QNX Floppy Demo. That was a 1.44MB floppy boot disk which contained a 32-bit protected mode realtime POSIX OS and GUI with networking stack and a web browser. It could use your modem to go onlne and go surfing. I've still got it somewhere.
[16:22:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─Unless, of course, it doesn't happen that they change the title/content. And until now, this FA included, you have no support in reality that they did.
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─I dunno, every time I've tried to find any significant amount of dynamic content from something like a web forum, it's not there. I can't think of a political reason for any of those sites. I always just assumed they couldn't possibly have the storage space to actually archive the entire literal int...
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─"American national censorship".
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─Good point! Not enough for me to get all inflamed, but a good point nevertheless.
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─Because you are. If Soylent starts doing it however, your squeals will be EPIC. Because naturally, you are a hypocrite as well.
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─Let's label you Bullshit, then
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─And why would anyone sane not be against such "progress"? Do explain, oh anonymous DDOS proponent.
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─I like to think the original plan for internet content assumed that the people browsing it were inconsequential nerds. If the info was wrong, they'd know, because nerds are smart. Even if they didn't, it wouldn't matter, because nobody listens to nerds anyway. Everything changed when the normies cam...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─Great, I'm glad we're in agreement that Internet Archive's right to freely speak about dangerous misinformation must be protected. 'Cause it almost sounds like people think those labels they are applying should be censored!
[16:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─Notice how my post is still there and has not been censored.
[16:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─Internet Archive is merely using their freedom of speech to warn people about misinformation. Why do you hate free speech?
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─So... why are those idiots protesting?
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─You are false data. Therefore I shall ignore you. [youtu.be]
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Loses its First Rocket Shortly After Engine Ignition - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─The carrier aircraft Cosmic Girl and all of its crew landed safely at Mojave Air and Space Port, concluding the mission.
[16:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Loses its First Rocket Shortly After Engine Ignition - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:39] <exec> 08└─Very much advantage. Most of the fuel and energy is spent on the lower part of the atmosphere where drag is at it's highest. It also requires a launch pad which is not a trivial infrastructure to build. It also allows you to launch wherever the more advantageous. It is quite a remarkable problem the...
[16:23:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:47] <exec> 08└─People are continuing to rely on their own meagre capabilities, rather than outsourcing to us! Oh noes!!
[16:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:34] <exec> 08└─Hmm...., actually, looking at it, it's probably not any worse than storing your password in your browser using the built-in tools. In fact, it might be safer. I'm not a fan of storing my passwords digitally, though. You're less likely to be hacked by keeping a physical copy of your password. Unless...
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:35] <exec> 08└─No, the likelihood is that, a dumb standard would be created. The standard would likely be worse than the better ones, while being just slightly better than the worst "password rules".
[16:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks for ruining my "HA! I cracked your account dude" joke...
[16:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:40] <exec> 08└─Came here to say something similar: requiring passwords everywhere is dumb. So people know reusing passwords is insecure, but so is creating a good password for every dumb site that requires one - its much easier to have a junk username password pair for all the dumb sites out there.
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:42] <exec> 08└─That is all very interesting for sure. I am impressed that your brain works like that. Mine doesn't. I'd forget all my passwords and be logging onto every sight through the "forgot my password" button. For instance, I sing songs all of the time to people, but still forget the lyrics to songs I've...
[16:25:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Just Turning Your Phone on Qualifies as Searching It, Court Rules - 212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─But what if it turned out not to be locked? Aren't what they might have seen then not something they did not have a right to observe? Just because a door is not locked does not grant somebody permission to enter.
[16:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Just Turning Your Phone on Qualifies as Searching It, Court Rules - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:49] <exec> 08└─One 5lb sledge generally works well for turning any electronic device off. Pretty permanently, but it works.
[16:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Just Turning Your Phone on Qualifies as Searching It, Court Rules - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:52] <exec> 08└─That case would be in favor of the cop. An open door is an invitation, and there is a legal difference between inadvertantly witnessing a crime in the course of your duty and a constitutionally protected search.
[16:26:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06US Begins Crackdown on Unvetted Virus Blood Tests - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─A lot of these tests aren't even good at the population level. They're either just before the line of fraud or actually over the line. The FDA should never have let them be sold. The are "unfit for purpose".
[16:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Begins Crackdown on Unvetted Virus Blood Tests - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:44] <exec> 08└─I'm in the same boat, but boy am I glad I don't have kids. I might be able to weather self-quarantine if I got sick, but if I had a family to support, I'd be working sick or not - and duck anyone who says my child's food is less important than their safety.
[16:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:20] <exec> 08└─I agree, there's a sizable fraction that cannot telecommute. As machinist I'm among them. There are two other people at my company that cannot telecommute, but the rest could.
[16:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:22] <exec> 08└─There's guys doing more-or-less this right now. Turns out some flavors of windshield washing fluid are pretty much a straight methanol/water mix, so they rig up an alcohol injection system fed from the washer fluid tank. Their intent, of course, is to cram more fuel through a given size engine, rath...
[16:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 1690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:24] <exec> 08└─Hardly. LED bulbs have essentially zero lifespan. I've bought a dozen of them, far more than I ever should have, and they just don't last. About 20% of them are DOA. You get occasional DOA incandescents too, but not nearly at that rate. Then there's the lifespan of the ones that do work. Here's an e...
[16:29:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 7 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:03] <exec> 08└─win-get
[16:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:51] <exec> 08└─Cuts down on the riffraff.
[16:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:52] <exec> 08└─Can you clarify? As far as I know, "sideloading" would mean transferring between two local devices, rather than "uploading" or "downloading" which must go over the internet. I've only ever heard of "sideloading" applications on platforms where standard security policy only allows "downloads" from ve...
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[17:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:42] <exec> 08└─Sounds like my mother-in-law's cooking... who knew the old battle-axe was a cutting-edge materials science researcher?
[17:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:44] <exec> 08└─Bricks don't get recycled because they are too busy doing their job until they are torn down which could easily be 60 years.
[17:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:46] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it would smell pretty nasty too... not sure I'd want to spend long periods of time inside a room constructed from that stuff.
[17:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 2340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:01] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, NCommander, that's way more pain than I ever subjected myself to, for commercial software. I sometimes went that far to crack a game I liked. Mostly what I did was, if it didn't work, and it was commercial, and the debugger wasn't included but was an extra cost, I moved on to something el...
[17:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:03] <exec> 08└─Built in peer to peer networking was a big game changer. Before WFWG, if you wanted to share files, you had to have an expensive dedicated machine running a file server. And back then, you paid for server software through the nose. All of a sudden, people could share files directly between machines...
[17:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─This was the last version of Windows that I developed software for. Mid-1990's I was supporting applications written in MicroFocus COBOL and developing new code in Borland's Delphi. Windows never seemed to get a foot hold as a platform for development, outside of a few niche areas. Oh, and games. If...
[17:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:07] <exec> 08└─It's funny you should mention that because I ran into exactly that sorta pain on the follow up ...
[17:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:09] <exec> 08└─I actually remember it more than base 3.1 and was more common throughout the later half of '93 to '95 due to the fact it had 32-bit disk support so it's quite a bit speeder than base 3.1 even without the network improvements.
[17:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03throckmorten [3380] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:11] <exec> 08└─Wow, wouldn't life be a lot easier if you invested in a couple of junker 486s from ebay? Glad you got it working in the end though.
[17:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:13] <exec> 08└─eXoDOS is running into this same sort of issue for the eXoWIN stack he has made to play games. I pretty much came to the same conclusion he did 1 copy of win3.x for 1 program. The interactions between programs and the way they would randomly install things was a sight to behold. Back then it was wil...
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─Windows never seemed to get a foot hold as a platform for development, outside of a few niche areas Wha? That is like the exact opposite of what happened. Pretty much any CRUD app was written with windows in mind. VB6 changed the world. VS6 did too. VS2002 and Vista ended it. Everyone ran the other...
[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─Independently verified from the current QOTD at the bottom of this page: All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -- Sean O'Casey
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─What about people who want to study these things? Burning books has never worked, allowing ideologies to be openly examined and debated in the light of day always works.
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─An archive that allows politics to be part of the archival process cannot be fully trusted by future researchers. They may never know how stupid some people were being at this point in time. Passing as full a history as possible to the next generation is how we prepare them for the future.
[17:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Loses its First Rocket Shortly After Engine Ignition - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:41] <exec> 08└─I think the idea is that you get to pick your launch site rather than needing to wait for your launch site to fall into the desired window.
[17:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:42] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. I've been doing this for years and it works for me. Note that I don't use that mechanism for all my logins. Only for the ones that *require* really strong passwords (those that could negatively impact me personally or financially). I use other mechanisms for less important logins. For u...
[17:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 3045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:43] <exec> 08└─Lastpass has an online element that is vulnerable to compromise in one way or another. There's the backend database and over the wire. Granted, they would be nerd shamed if they didn't perform at least the minimum security efforts to protect against breaches, but the most secure crypto is often brea...
[17:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─I would suggest that you run from any site with a max password length. There is only one "valid" reason to set a max length, and that is because the data column for the passwords has a max length. Thus, this restriction points to the fact that this site is storing passwords in plain text. (Ok, I can...
[17:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:48] <exec> 08└─I like it. I think I'll start with this song: Cookie Monster sings [youtube.com] "C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me" can be come "C is for Kernel, that's good enough for me."
[17:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Achieve Broadest Microcomb Spectral Span On Record - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:59] <exec> 08└─AC above is most likely to be murdered by police.
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Just Turning Your Phone on Qualifies as Searching It, Court Rules - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:58] <exec> 08└─The readership isn't mostly boomer, it's the comment writers. Aristarchus is the oldest, so he obviously has the most blame. I think the only regularly-commenting non-AC who isn't old as hell is Azuma, and she's batshit crazy.
[17:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:30] <exec> 08└─You are buying garbage then. I've bought cheaper bulbs too and have yet to have any failures.
[17:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imaging an Exoplanet - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:32] <exec> 08└─"sounds like something out of science fiction" I really really am tired of hearing that in these kind of stories. We have been at the point for decades where we can do anything that is in science fiction stores that doesn't break the laws of physics. And in this case, I really don't know what it is...
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[18:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:39] <exec> 08└─Love the idea but would really like to see what it looks like.
[18:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:40] <exec> 08└─Imagine the outfit that managed a deal that allowed them to crank out LARGE Lego bricks at a reasonable price. They could even offer limited production runs of some of the more popular Lego kits, with the assorted special pieces. You could build your own Millennium Falcon, and live in it!
[18:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:42] <exec> 08└─And what happens to them once they're torn down? It doesn't really directly matter how long a product does its job (obviously the longer it's in use, the less gets thrown away per year) - the real question is the amount of the product thrown away every year. And there's a whole lot of concrete throw...
[18:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:44] <exec> 08└─There's no way some rubber/plastic brick is going to last as long as a ceramic brick. It will degrade, losing strength, appearance, or chemicals to the environment. And since it doesn't last as long, it will have to be replaced (recycled) sooner with all the losses and inefficiency that goes with th...
[18:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:46] <exec> 08└─Plastic lasts basically forever, in fact that's one of the big problems with it. Unless exposed sunlight, which causes it to break up (though sadly not break down) - so paint your walls. Doesn't really matter how long your bricks theoretically last when the building is probably torn down much sooner...
[18:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:10] <exec> 08└─"Then I'd reboot into Windows when the boss came past" Was he crippled? How did you have time to bout into windows, didn't it take like 5 minutes.
[18:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:11] <exec> 08└─We gladly installed cards and paid for Netware (or whatever it was) to get P2P networking in the mid '90s - it was so so much better (for us) than having to stand up a server and maintain that, too.
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─Java, and most of its derivatives, is and always has been the malformed spawn of evil - one of the few environments I like less than Windows.
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─Windows 3.11 was released in 1992. It run happily on a 16MHz 386 with 4MiB of RAM, the fasted machine you could buy had a 486 DX2 66, probably with 16-32MiB of RAM. The SPARCstation 2, from a couple of years earlier, ran at 40MHz or 80MHz and supported 64MiB of RAM on the mainboard and 128MiB on an...
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:18] <exec> 08└─Since it was always crashing, everyone was always rebooting.
[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:20] <exec> 08└─What's sorta sad is the Sun set the standard for UNIX filesharing by porting NFS to everyone, and never really profitted from it.
[18:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:22] <exec> 08└─NSFW. Seriously.
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate free speech?
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─I defend the Nazi's right to speak. And I also defend the counter-protestors' right to call them assholes. See that where the fake free speach people are at now. They want ONLY the Nazi's to have the right to speak and any criticism, such as a warning label, is prohibited.
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Applying Physics to Understanding the Mystery of Consciousness - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:33] <exec> 08└─"...also I would not consider a sociopath more alive and conscious than an ebola-class pathogen or a fellow bot..." what are you trying to say?
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Loses its First Rocket Shortly After Engine Ignition - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:52] <exec> 08└─To answer my own question - http://www.spacefuture.com [spacefuture.com] Require Delta V of 1400 m/s to get to 100 km in absence of losses Require about 900 m/s to fight gravity...
[18:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:56] <exec> 08└─Middle class? Are there enough of those left that we can statistically determine a common number of accounts?
[18:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Space Programme Targets July Launch for Mars Mission - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─NASA's budget at the time was over $18 billion that year too. So NASA alone received at least 70% more budget than the Chinese government spent in total on its space program. And they might be missing some black budget spending. People just don't get how much the US squanders here.
[18:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:42] <exec> 08└─Why would the telecommuters *want* to move out to the countryside? First, it costs far more to provide infrastructure services to remote locations than to denser urban locations. Just think of how much it costs to build a mile of road; if there's thousands of people living along that mile, the cost...
[18:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:44] <exec> 08└─Do you have any idea how much an F1 car costs, or how much labor goes into producing it? Carbon fibre is notoriously labor-intensive, and not really automate-able. It works well for high-end bicycles (ones that cost a good fraction of what a car does) with Chinese or Taiwanese labor rates, but there...
[18:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:46] <exec> 08└─They can when fuel is taxed to also pay for road construction and maintenance, etc. Not saying this is an ideal situation, but it is the situation we have. No it's not, not in America. In America, we subsidize roads with other funding sources. Sure, we pay a lot of gas taxes for roads and bridges, b...
[18:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:48] <exec> 08└─In 'murica we subsidize energy, oil in particular, and food, which explains all the fat asses cruising the Taco Bell drivethroughs in their SUVs and pickup trucks.
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[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─You can panel or plaster over ugly, outgassing is much harder to cover up.
[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:51] <exec> 08└─And you thought the LEGO Millennium Falcon was expensive at $800 - just picture what one with 125,000x the volume would cost. 7541 pieces are going to take some time to wrangle into place, and a lot of kragl if you want to keep it together through outdoor thermal cycling. Ref: Lego mini-figs are 4cm...
[19:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:53] <exec> 08└─Whoever decided to brag that these could be made from sand never heard of the sand shortage.
[19:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:55] <exec> 08└─Who needs a deal? Just look at all the unlicensed knock-offs that are out there already, often LEGO compatible (um, excuse me - "compatible with popular construction bricks", don't want to go violating that trademark) There's nothing novel about interlocking bricks - LEGO was predated by American Br...
[19:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:57] <exec> 08└─Whenever I see articles like this, I become skeptical. So many times in my life I have seen products, that were thought to be useful and benign, turn out to have hidden dangers. Asbestos, CFCs, teflon, etc, etc, were all thought to be revolutionary and perfectly safe materials in their time.
[19:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:59] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that plastic is something that we've gotten rather good at tuning. One of the big headaches with recycling plastics is that there's so many of them and they don't all play well together when recycled. Depending upon the mixture of plastics you can get varying degrees of rigidity and d...
[19:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:02] <exec> 08└─This is true, the main reason to stick with Lego brand is that they are built to incredibly tight and consistent tolerances. Chances are that one of the first plastic sets they made will still interchange with the newest sets they're making. Which is a huge accomplishment, but also a huge part of wh...
[19:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:04] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that part of the reason for building things out of plastic is that it's a way of sequestering carbon. A relatively large deck alone can take nearly the entire plastic output of a moderate sized city and keep it there for a relatively long time. Yes, it will emit some of the carbon dioxi...
[19:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:06] <exec> 08└─That would be handy - though I suspect wall panels would work better than bricks in almost every way.
[19:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:08] <exec> 08└─You know what else is made from sand? Traditional concrete bricks...
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─That's a detail that a lot of people either forget or are too young to know about. Computers had been around for years before they started to come in variants that could be used at home. None of the home computers were competitive with the more expensive ones being used for business purposes, but th...
[19:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:39] <exec> 08└─I remember back when I got my first computer, sometimes DOS or Win would just hang and you wouldn't know that it had hung until you got impatient and gave up on the program only to find that nothing shy of powercycling the computer would cause a response. At least Windows 95 usually threw up a BSoD...
[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─On the technical side, it hardly benefited UNIX standardizing on a piece of big-server legacy tech at an era when NetWare Lite was doing P2P storage in '91 while Plan 9 first edition came out in '92 doing distributed everything. In fact, it's the sort of crap that won Microsoft the desktop.
[19:23:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─Great, I'm glad we're in agreement that Internet Archive's right to freely speak about dangerous misinformation must be protected. 'Cause it almost sounds like people think those labels they are applying should be censored!
[19:23:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:25] <exec> 08└─Internet Archive is merely using their freedom of speech to warn people about misinformation. Why do you hate free speech?
[19:23:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:27] <exec> 08└─So... why are those idiots protesting?
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:35] <exec> 08└─stfu, you dumb partisan bitch.
[19:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:37] <exec> 08└─You're the "nazi", Bolshevik Jew's idiot.
[19:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:39] <exec> 08└─This is the most interesting thing about this all. I think if anybody takes even a remotely impartial look at the actions and behaviors of companies like Google, who they are is rapidly revealed. And that's not sunshine and rainbows. They're just using people as useful idiots. The interesting part o...
[19:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:42] <exec> 08└─I have never considered an archive.org account, what purpose do they serve
[19:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:44] <exec> 08└─I like to think the original plan for printing press assumed that the people printing and reading from it were inconsequential monks. If the info was wrong, they'd know, because monks are smart. Even if they didn't, it wouldn't matter, because nobody listens to monks anyway. Everything changed when...
[19:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Space Programme Targets July Launch for Mars Mission - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─that's what i was thinking: how much of that big fat budget was total theft/waste.
[19:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Just Turning Your Phone on Qualifies as Searching It, Court Rules - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:40] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Police are allowed to conduct searches without search warrant under special circumstances
[19:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Begins Crackdown on Unvetted Virus Blood Tests - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─Citation: https://www.factcheck.org [factcheck.org] An analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation looked at average Medicare payments for hospital admissions for the existing diagnosis-related groups and noted that the “average Medicare payment...
[19:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Begins Crackdown on Unvetted Virus Blood Tests - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:34] <exec> 08└─I think they need to exhume a random sample of those covid19 deaths and test for the virus.
[19:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:47] <exec> 08└─Turn in your gorram geek card. The Alliance will never have you and the Browncoats will turn you away. Might end up findin yourself bushwhacked by someone who doesn't take kindly to your patter.
[19:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:48] <exec> 08└─Is there no safe space for Microsofties? Is there no where for them to go when triggered by nasty, vicious comments about systemd? Oh, the huge manatee!! It as if there has been a sudden disturbance in the force, with former nerds who once were thralls of Microsoft moving to Appledom, instead of to...
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[20:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─Isn't it how "built-in security check engine" translates from marketspeak? In other words, expect it to be used for anything from website hosting to VPN and cloud storage.
[20:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─an x86 processor with PrC
[20:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─The thing about carbon sequestration projects that cost a lot of money, generally speaking they cost that money because they consume a lot of energy - until we wean off of carbon based fuels it's a pointless exercise.
[20:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:12] <exec> 08└─Having worked with building material made mainly from recyled tires as the base, with other assorted plastics as fillers/whatever...yes, it bloody stinks as supplied, well, the stuff we had did, and if you had to work it....I made it SEFP when it came anywhere near the workshops.. Then there's the q...
[20:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─IIS was easily 50% or more of web installs at one point.
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:47] <exec> 08└─I got started in PC networking just in time to join the very last of the 3Com 3+Open SIG meetings in the bay area. The very next meeting we had was after Microsoft "Borg'd" the work that 3Com had done and incorporated them into LanManager. We renamed the SIG to the Microsoft Networking group (or som...
[20:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:50] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> I can only say that Java must have done something right to hold the top #1 and sometimes #2 spot in language popularity for 15 YEARS. Recently Python has beat out Java pushing it to #3 in the first time in a very very long time. I did write a journal entry [soylentnews.org] detailing so...
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:46] <exec> 08└─Who decides what to take offline? How are the decisions made? Can the process be changed, and why, and by who? How transparent is this process?
[20:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:47] <exec> 08└─Previously, you only needed an archive.org account to upload files or leave reviews (comments). You didn't need an account to watch a video.
[20:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─There are many reasons the USSR collapsed, but one thing that played a major role in it was soft power from America. Soft power of course is just making people "like" your ideas, views, culture, or whatever else. You can win wars without a single bullet being fired. And it doesn't have to be anythin...
[20:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 1803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─Hah, always an annoying means of responding. The problem is that your metaphor doesn't work. The WayBack Machine is not the internet itself. It's an archive of the past. It's more like a library than the printing press itself. Not just any library, though - a library which purports to hold copies of...
[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─"I defend the Nazi's" -- DeathMonkey 2020
[20:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Loses its First Rocket Shortly After Engine Ignition - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:33] <exec> 08└─Didn't you read the headline? They don't know, they lost it! Steve over in operations had ONE JOB to do: keep an eye on the rocket! And he couldn't even do that and he lost it. And he put his finger to his mouth and very cheekily said "Oops, I guess I did it this time!" and we all had a jolly laugh.
[20:25:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:11] <exec> 08└─Compute a sha256 hash of it. Use that as your password for the site.
[20:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Space Programme Targets July Launch for Mars Mission - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:11] <exec> 08└─Point is that if you're looking for money to throw at space stuff, the US spends more than the rest of the world combined. While China is a big spender (they're the second place by that), they're not far ahead of the ESA people. I think the real money is on the sidelines - the many tens of trillions...
[20:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06China Space Programme Targets July Launch for Mars Mission - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:13] <exec> 08└─You are not very knowledgeable about China and how they operate, are you?
[20:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Begins Crackdown on Unvetted Virus Blood Tests - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:50] <exec> 08└─US refused to use the tests being offered by WHO
[20:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Begins Crackdown on Unvetted Virus Blood Tests - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:52] <exec> 08└─Your first quote: An analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation looked at average Medicare payments for hospital admissions for the existing diagnosis-related groups and noted that the “average Medicare payment for respiratory infections and inflammations with major comorbidities or complications in...
[20:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:36] <exec> 08└─You REALLY don't know how automobiles are built, do you? I get the feeling you got your education via science fiction books rather than via any engineering experience. Here is a link to show how the folks who have been building massive aluminum vehicles FOR DECADES do it. It's still stamped sheet me...
[20:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Onboard Separation Technology Set to Improve Fuel Economy - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:37] <exec> 08└─Why would the telecommuters *want* to move out to the countryside?
[20:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:09] <exec> 08└─Fuck Firefly. I never watched that garbage and wouldn't do so if I were offered lots money to do so. And fuck you too.
[20:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:10] <exec> 08└─AC you replied to here. I first installed Yggdrasil Linux in 1993. I've installed, deployed and administered more free software than you can imagine. And yet, you're still an asshole. Which, I guess, means you like being compared to Joe McCarthy and, have no sense of decency. How many communists^W "...
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[21:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:46] <exec> 08└─That said, I'm sure that if the US were manufacturing these chips, there would be similar bugs in place for the NSA.
[21:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:48] <exec> 08└─》 last I heard, USA not only does not run concentration camps yet, but even sanctioned PRC for doing so. Typical ignorant American... ask your Japanese-American friends about Owen's Valley, Manzanar, etc
[21:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:50] <exec> 08└─Dorothea Lange even took photos of them for you.
[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:52] <exec> 08└─USA not only does not run concentration camps yet
[21:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 2330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─no sarcasm: Java 15, the 15 is a prima-facie explanation of my major complaint against Java: which Java are you running, which Java does your target machine have installed, what changes between versions? Quite a lot - enough that even sub-version variations have caused me non-functional issues a sho...
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─At that time I was using a Mac for pre-press work. At one point people called it desktop publishing. We had exactly the same problems. I would reboot my Mac everytime I went to get coffee, or to go to the gentleman's room, otherwise it would crash of its own accord. We thought we were better than...
[21:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─It was, finally, Win 95/98 that pushed me to Linux: constant reboots and IE crashes made me look at options. Found Redhat 5.0(? If I recall correctly) and never looked back. A "substantial improvement"! :)
[21:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:00] <exec> 08└─The smart people understand how apostrophes work. And the dumb people like Nazis. Not sure you have a winner on your hands here...
[21:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:02] <exec> 08└─Some of this shite you should probably have to pass both a critical thinking test and achieve a 110+ score on a dynamic IQ test before viewing. The quality of general Internet stuff — and in many case, that translates literally to the factual accuracy of it — is amazingly low. Seems to me like r...
[21:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:04] <exec> 08└─And I have no obligation to donate [archive.org] to an archive that is adding unnecessary "friction" to suppress political content.
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─For preserving Internet history, I am pretty sure the Internet Archive was supposed to be a technical tool, not a political one.
[21:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:08] <exec> 08└─They're documenting the history of when those fraudulent claims were removed the from site they no longer exist on.
[21:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─It is a bit sad that you consider deliberate misinformation to be "political content", and the effort to show it for what it really is to be "suppression".
[21:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:13] <exec> 08└─RT is *funded* by the Russian government. Putin controls the Russian government. Q.E.D. There's no wiggle room there tovarisch.
[21:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:15] <exec> 08└─The entire Internet only takes 42Gb once you remove all the pr0n.
[21:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:59] <exec> 08└─Your best bet would be to write a library or whatever that plugs in to the most popular shit, give it away for free, and hope it becomes popular.
[21:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Achieve Broadest Microcomb Spectral Span On Record - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:12] <exec> 08└─But is this microcomb thing a recent finding that's seeing real-world application testing [soylentnews.org] in the lab? That would be neat.
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[22:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06ARM Announces Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:42] <exec> 08└─1+3+4 core arrangement is optimal for systemd, since the sum of 1+3+4 equals Poettering 's IQ.
[22:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06ARM Announces Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:44] <exec> 08└─We can do better. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 8 cores per cluster. 32 clusters. 256 parallel instances of systemd goodness.
[22:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Announces Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:46] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Are there any boards shipping with such a configuration yet?
[22:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:58] <exec> 08└─How can these Chinamen just copy Intel's IP? And why is Israel suddenly so interested in what the PRC is up to?
[22:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:00] <exec> 08└─Nothing copied, from TFA: The processor was born of an official partnership with Intel and is presented as a hardware security enhanced server CPU
[22:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:02] <exec> 08└─> Typical ignorant American... ask your Japanese-American friends about Owen's Valley, Manzanar, etc Typical cheap propaganda bot. Ask your Russian bosses of GULAG. Besides, no amount of last-century stuff gives the todays' rulers an indulgence for new atrocities. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
[22:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:04] <exec> 08└─Patents are nation level laws, so if China wanted to, it could just "nationalize" them. That doesn't seem to be what's happening here, but if it were there would be no grounds for complaint. The US has done that in the past. I believe that in some technical areas it still does it.
[22:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:06] <exec> 08└─Ask your Muslim friend about the Xinjiang camps.
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:33] <exec> 08└─We also make bricks from clay.
[22:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─I have seen this sort of product a few times now. Usually they suffer from incompatable plastics sitting next to each other and then breaking down or cracking. Would be interesting how they solved that issue. For if they have not, it will not go far and is just a vc money grab.
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Here's the best I could find: https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net [cloudfront.net]
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─Whoa, didn't know about that particular little slimy MS trick. But it sure fits their M.O. Have to add it to my list of MS crimes-- the license key DRM misfeature added in XP, the bribery, bullying, and lying they pulled around OOXML to ram that "standard" through the standards body, the Plays For S...
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─Thank you very much for taking the time needed for researching this and sharing it with us.
[22:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─As I recall, Sun/SGI/IBM/HP/DEC all had expensive UNIX workstations that couldn't compete on price with commodity ISA hardware.
[22:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─Most popular, like Windows? I don't think that most popular is any relief from the epitaph: malformed spawn of evil.
[22:23:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:48] <exec> 08└─The "context" contains factual information, marked as being a Wayback Machine addition, nothing from what was archived is missing. So... why are those idiots protesting?
[22:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:32] <exec> 08└─It is a bit sad that you consider deliberate misinformation to be "political content"
[22:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:34] <exec> 08└─That is the reason for the huge push against RT by the US establishment. They cover stories that our media will not.
[22:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:36] <exec> 08└─Plandemic is deliberate misinformation. The people who make it are lying liars, whose trousers are currently combusting. The Internet Archive is ensuring that people who might want to view the video from their site are aware of this. Telling giant porkies is not political speech, and pointing the...
[22:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:38] <exec> 08└─https://blog.archive.today/post/618500726443950080/the-internet-archive-is-now-editorializing [blog.archive.today]
[22:26:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06China Space Programme Targets July Launch for Mars Mission - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:44] <exec> 08└─No. We must think of other people as enemies. Especially anyone whose culture different to ours. Different is scary.
[22:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Begins Crackdown on Unvetted Virus Blood Tests - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:38] <exec> 08└─And then you give the disease to your kids and they develop the child's syndrome of cardiac vessel inflammation and then you get to find out whether or not you ended up killing your kids by your feeling you needed to work to support them during this time.
[22:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:56] <exec> 08└─WebAssembly: Write Once, Run Everywhere for people too young to remember why Java didn't take over the world with the exact same pitch.
[22:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:58] <exec> 08└─jmorris lives and aristarchus cries either a tear of sadness or joy.
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[23:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Announces Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:42] <exec> 08└─Ampere Altra will have 80 cores: https://www.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] Amazon's Graviton2 has 64 cores: https://www.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] It do...
[23:21:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Intel and AMD Shouldn’t Panic Yet, but This Chinese Vendor Has Repacked a Xeon CPU - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:54] <exec> 08└─USA not only does not run concentration camps yet
[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:30] <exec> 08└─SEFP ? Science and Engineering Foundation Programme? Shaving Eyebrows Fun and Profit? Senior Executive Fellows Program? Sexy Eunuchs Fucking Pillows? Search Engine Frontend Page? Sleek Elegant Fast Porches? Sexy Egyptians Fucking Pharisees? Shouldn't Expect Fair Pay? Shaving Extremely Fine Pussy? So...
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks from Plastic Waste - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:31] <exec> 08└─You want pictures? OK, but you may not like them cause you also have read through a lot of chemistry and engineering stuff with lots of math formulas. Stuff the average S/N code monkeys don't seem to like. https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
[23:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:15] <exec> 08└─Then comes the joys of working with floppy drives. No thanks. I'm never touching those again.
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:16] <exec> 08└─The '89 news piece I've linked specifically discusses the sun386i workstations that were introduced following Sun's failure with MIPS boxes back in '89. To spoil the 30yr/old punch line, it was priced at $8-12k.
[23:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:18] <exec> 08└─They make a floppy emulator. It fits in a floppy bay, accepts a flash card and has a display where you change which floppy image is visible on the floppy interface pins. Lots of misc hardware with a floppy drive that is otherwise useful, musical things especially. But floppy drives and discs that ar...
[23:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warnings - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:32] <exec> 08└─The Russian-funded RT is just as important, if not more important, than the US-funded Voice of America.
[23:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Applying Physics to Understanding the Mystery of Consciousness - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:54] <exec> 08└─also I would not consider a sociopath more alive and conscious than an ebola-class pathogen or a fellow bot
[23:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Orbit Loses its First Rocket Shortly After Engine Ignition - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─SpaceX lost three of their first five rockets. NASA lost some of theirs, and the Russians lost quite a few as well. Rocket science is hard, yo. "This was the company's first attempt to ignite LauncherOne." Really? They never did ground testing?
[23:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Know Reusing Passwords is Dumb, But Still Do It - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:21] <exec> 08└─Sorry for responding to my own post, but you can also store a password *hint* in LastPass's password field instead. Then with a couple clicks in your browser you can view the hint, and enter the password itself until you remember it without needing the hint. You lose a few features, but gain the abi...
[23:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Just Turning Your Phone on Qualifies as Searching It, Court Rules - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:41] <exec> 08└─A lock screen should provide ownership information so that a lost device can be returned to its owner. Recording this as part of property inventory during an arrest is no different than recording the name on your driver's licence when they confiscate your wallet. They still need a search warrant to...
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