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[00:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:50] <exec> 08└─I bid and won on a data file containing The Might Buzzard's favorite fishing spots.
[00:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:52] <exec> 08└─Do the fish wear gill masks to protect the Buzzard from COFISH-19?
[00:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:09] <exec> 08└─Cool, though I'm definitiely meh about a subscription plan. Now what about a nice de-blur? Smart color correction? Right now, I use the GIMP's white balance to fix fade in old photos. Works pretty well, as long as there's something white in the photo, and the fade is even. But if the tints have shif...
[00:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:45] <exec> 08└─There is no "I" in team, but there is a "me." Therefore the "team" must work harder to cater to "me."
[00:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:10] <exec> 08└─but to me it looks an awful lot like chinese walls to obscure a simple pay the competition to leave the market play, which would surely have triggered anti-trust investigations Again, I do not understand what you're getting at here. Intel did not pay off AMD in any way: AMD released the x86-64. And...
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[01:22:13] <exec> 08└─Black Looting Morons
[01:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:15] <exec> 08└─darktable can do all that. There is even a Windows installer, but I have no idea how well that works.
[01:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:32] <exec> 08└─If a task is challenging and doesn't have a clear deadline, you can often feel like it's not the best time to tackle it--the brain's great at coming up with reasons why like you're feeling too tired or distracted or haven't done enough planning--so you can start to worry about things that you think...
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[02:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe humans migrated from North America to Europe?
[02:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:28] <exec> 08└─Intel wasn't in competition with HP, but if they didn't throw HP a bone, they would be when they got in to PA-RISC's market space. Or DEC's. You don't think it's a coincidence that 2 significant 64 bit CPUs just happened to exit the market when Intel wanted to introduce Itanic, do you? AMD shouldere...
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[03:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:05] <exec> 08└─What about the blackmail by khazar jews? They steal your confidential data, take pictures in private areas, record your conversations and send 'friends' to get more private data from you. Then they blackmail you and tell you to do as you are told or else. Almost all world leaders are on a leash held...
[03:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:25] <exec> 08└─Steal algorithm and code. Implement algorithm in another computer language. Call it your own and make money. People have been stealing code since the beginning. PKZip comes to mind as one of the infamous examples of code theft. A lot of algorithms have been written to do a variety of things on a com...
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─As mentioned, Darktable or Raw Therapee.
[03:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:20] <exec> 08└─How else do you think the big bang happened?
[03:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:21] <exec> 08└─I was joking. Can you see the smiley? Maybe you're not aware of smileys?
[03:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:34] <exec> 08└─The next big military breakthrough, once we have high-capacity batteries, will be hand-held rail cannons rather than phasers. The military has experimented with a lot of laser tech and, even with high power supplies such as nuclear reactors, they have all sucked. Laser tech relies on a lot more than...
[03:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:04] <exec> 08└─You're forgetting about Netscape Enterprise Server and SSJS.
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[04:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:54] <exec> 08└─Hey! That explains why they speak Spanish in Spain!
[04:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:06] <exec> 08└─Its the only way to be sure.
[04:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─It's so you can take photos in your shithole 1-bedroom apartment and then post them to your Instagram account showing off your international travel lifestyle, with you in Hawaii, Borneo, Phuket, the Bahamas, ...
[04:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:26] <exec> 08└─there used to be all sorts of one-line code porn, like this one line of APL code that could draw an elephant.
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[05:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Fines Kids’ App Developer HyperBeard $150K for Use of Third-Party Ad Trackers - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:50] <exec> 08└─More plagiarized articles posted by the SoylentNews "editors", even after they pledged not to do this. I still don't understand why ANYONE would pay for this worthless site. There's no original content, and most of the stories are copied word-for-word from news articles at a handful of other sites.
[05:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Fines Kids’ App Developer HyperBeard $150K for Use of Third-Party Ad Trackers - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:51] <exec> 08└─I don't care if they can pay the entire amount, take every penny the corporation has, and at least /try/ to pierce the corporate veil and go after the principles. Otherwise this is just more business-as-usual rich people protecting each other because the law only applies to the proles.
[05:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:01] <exec> 08└─And we all know where chocolate really comes from...
[05:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:03] <exec> 08└─You two have been watching way too much Ancient Aliens on the "Used to Be History Channel".
[05:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:14] <exec> 08└─One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish... Not much value in those files was there?
[05:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:15] <exec> 08└─Ransomware authors contribute nothing of value to society. Yet somehow they still manage to be more useful and productive than SoylentNews editors. I suggest that nobody purchase any new subscriptions to this site until the quality of the site and its articles improve dramatically.
[05:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:34] <exec> 08└─You're not as clever as you think you are.
[05:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:40] <exec> 08└─A couple players on the football team helped me get a good look inside the toilet. I didn't want to see the inside of a toilet bowl but the football players had a convincing case.
[05:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:41] <exec> 08└─Anyway, that device used a gyroscope to find true north. One measurement took several minutes and for extra accuracy 2 measurements in a row were required, the first based on magnetic north which resulted in a preliminary result. The second based on the first result, which gave a very accurate Earth...
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[06:21:49] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
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[06:21:50] <exec> 08└─No one cares. Bugger off.
[06:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:02] <exec> 08└─How does this "discovery" of an ancient Mayan building affect anyone at all? Why would anyone at all care about this? Now, I know, my comment will be censored to -1 to avoid answering this simple question. But why are we paying for "research" like this when there are far more important problems to b...
[06:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 3166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:03] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
[06:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:01] <exec> 08└─This is actually one of your dreams.
[06:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get It Over With, or Procrastinate? New Research Explores Our Decision-Making Process - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:02] <exec> 08└─How do I know it's not dreaming me instead?
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[07:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:48] <exec> 08└─NO ID2020 NO MICROCHIP NO MARK WO2020060606 Here is the patent for Microsoft 1. WO2020060606 - CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA look at the patent number, literally, "world order 2020 666." This from the same guy who is publicly saying he wants to put microchip tracking on every human...
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[08:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, ransomware authors contribute much more to society than other scalpers and middlemen like health insurance providers or tax preparation software companies. They provide a positive incentive for companies with poor security to fix their shit. Think of it like a bug bounty system that you ca...
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[09:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:46] <exec> 08└─Looks inevtiable [theiet.org], the German government is just aiming to speed things up.
[09:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Fines Kids’ App Developer HyperBeard $150K for Use of Third-Party Ad Trackers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, i bet they are just crying crocodile tears all the way to the bank /sarcasm
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[10:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 1512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:46] <exec> 08└─This would make sense if they are required to provide both snacks and somewhere reasonably pleasant that you can sit and eat them as well. Even with a really fast charge rate (which not all EVs support) you're still talking a pretty lengthy stay to put a reasonable amount of charge into the batterie...
[10:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:47] <exec> 08└─From your link : There was a time when arriving at a petrol station was part of the romance of driving. Many of them were even stylish examples of contemporary design.
[10:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:49] <exec> 08└─While I applaud the move, I can't help wondering how much of this is fueled by Volkswagen's recent commitment to electric vehicles.
[10:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:19] <exec> 08└─I think we all know the answer to this question. There is absolutely no value to this research. However, instead of admitting this, my comment will be censored to -1 to avoid the question.
[10:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:21] <exec> 08└─I would have liked to see the Lidar pictures, but: uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading: https: // guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifierssessionId=3_cc-session_1c etc etc. And the Nature site: Rent or Buy article Get time limited or full article access on ReadCube. from$8.99
[10:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:36] <exec> 08└─Go fish.
[10:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf() - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:55] <exec> 08└─I have no idea if it's a good tic-tac-toe program
[10:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:06] <exec> 08└─We were told that the Belgians once had managed to find 'true south' instead of true north and shot their rocket, luckily with only a test payload causing a small explosion a kilometre above ground, exactly 180 degrees opposite to where it was supposed to go.
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[11:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:43] <exec> 08└─>> "because we also want to work together with the FBI, with local law enforcement, in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose" That gives you a clue about how secure their paid encryption will actually be. Mohammed al-Jihadi will buy a paid subscription for $9.99/month thinking he can plan his...
[11:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:44] <exec> 08└─Did you catch the name its "ZOOM" alright? You get that? Zoom...
[11:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:55] <exec> 08└─It takes me about 2 minutes to fill with petrol. It takes - what? - 30-60 minutes to charge an EV, especially the 60 minutes if the driver takes the chance to eat a meal or go off shopping, the opportunity for which we are told is an advantage of EVs. So as a rough guide, in the EV Utopia to come,...
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[11:21:56] <exec> 08└─the romance probably stopped when "full driveway service" stopped: the attendant would fill your car, and while the pump was running, they would also clean your windows, check tyre pressures and check engine fluids. I know of two petrol stations where they still offer to fill your car for you, but t...
[11:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:59] <exec> 08└─add the chargers in houses, shops, car parks, office car parks... most people charge at home, at work, or while shopping. These are just bonus sites, that stop the value of petrol station real estate dropping as quickly.
[11:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:07] <exec> 08└─Bait shoppers with a big tip and then throw acid in their face when they deliver your order. It's still allowed under Instacart's terms of service.
[11:22:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─Hey! That explains why they speak Spanish in Spain!
[11:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:33] <exec> 08└─>> "I have spent thousands of hours of fieldwork walking behind a local machete-wielding man who would cut straight lines through the forest," wrote anthropologist Patricia McAnany. Why didn't she hire a machete-wielding woman, transvestite, or one of the 92 other genders?
[11:23:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:30] <exec> 08└─the good guys (Amazon and Google)
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[11:24:09] <exec> 08└─+4 up-votes say otherwise, Lennart.
[11:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anesthesia's Effect on Consciousness Solved, Settling Century-old Scientific Debate - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:09] <exec> 08└─I'd assumed it was just a troll. No-one can be so twisted by groupthink that they think of consciousness as a partisan issue. Also, you have to try quite hard to misread that use of disorder.
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[12:21:53] <exec> 08└─The perps in TV dramas lately seem to be ahead of law enforcement by using Tor-based messaging. If fiction is any guide then savvy bad dudes won't be using mainstream messaging. But won't Fat Tony of The Legitimate Businessman's Social Club just purchase a subscription?
[12:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:54] <exec> 08└─the company will only roll out high-security end-to-end encryption to paying customers, potentially with exceptions for dissident groups or nonprofits that require the added security.
[12:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:56] <exec> 08└─Did you catch the name its "ZOOM" alright? You get that? Zoom...
[12:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:58] <exec> 08└─All publicity is bad publicity? This is a fitting end to the Zoom saga. Flashback to Signal next. https://www.pcmag.com [pcmag.com] https://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com] ht...
[12:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:13] <exec> 08└─which will be occupied by clowns who simply leave their cars there for hours, or all day, or all night, while they go off doing other things.
[12:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 2114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:14] <exec> 08└─> It takes me about 2 minutes to fill with petrol. It takes - what? - 30-60 minutes to charge an EV, especially the 60 minutes if the driver takes the chance to eat a meal or go off shopping, the opportunity for which we are told is an advantage of EVs. Its worse than that, the faster you charge, th...
[12:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:50] <exec> 08└─Naah man. You have no idea how easy it is to get pussy as a dick girl. Lesbians, straight girls, guys with pussies, everybody wants the girl cock. Sucks to be you.
[12:23:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data - 793 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, ransomware authors contribute much more to society than other scalpers and middlemen like health insurance providers or tax preparation software companies. They provide a positive incentive for companies with poor security to fix their shit. Think of it like a bug bounty system that you ca...
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[13:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:54] <exec> 08└─Zoom is arguing that paying customers are a lower risk to engage in criminal activity than free customers?
[13:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:56] <exec> 08└─I recall them saying they already did end to end encryption, and that it was AES-256. Then it was found out it was AES-128, using ECB mode which sucks. It's all in Bruce Schneier's blog [schneier.com]. Then they said they didn't use encryption all the time and bought that startup in the US, and now...
[13:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 3166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:58] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
[13:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:00] <exec> 08└─The only thing Zoom work for is long monologues. The second you try to interact or, what's the word... talk, it turns choppy as shit and you put your head in your hands and go back to listening to monologue.
[13:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:02] <exec> 08└─No, they literally said: "some people use Zoom for a bad purpose". Paying = good. Non-paying = bad. See? I only hope they discover the innovation of injecting ads. They are some smart cookies in tech!
[13:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 3166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
[13:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─When I want romance while I'm driving, I get my wife to put her head down and do the business. Proper romantic.
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:21] <exec> 08└─OK then smart ass, what if we make the batteries out of gasoline and burn it to provide the thrust. Solves your little strawman argument.
[13:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints - 3166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:31] <exec> 08└─See subject & a NICE DOSE of PUBLIC HUMILIATION for your own local FREAK barbara hudson folks: I "apologized" to you TRANNY twisto https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ? FUCK NO, not ever: That's NOT me but I DESTROYED YOU PUBLICLY on every level including provi...
[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─Tip-baiting, a grotesque tactic
[13:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Any suggestions for a particularly difficult case? The photographer who took many of these 60 year old photos was notorious for not holding the camera steady. Most of his pictures have motion blur. I read of and tried a way to fix motion blur: fight blur with blur. It worked fairly well. Sha...
[13:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:39] <exec> 08└─Unless your 60 year old pictures are of Lena, then I don't think anything will work.
[13:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:41] <exec> 08└─That's not even YOUR lawn, bah!
[13:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:12] <exec> 08└─In the near future, military police will be asking at every corner, «Papieren bitte,» and the right-wingers will love it because it's their guy der nach den Papieren fragt instead of Grand Emperor Baraq Hussein Soetoro. Why couldn't we have had taco trucks on those corners instead of Stasi?
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[14:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:49] <exec> 08└─It's all very well inventing new compounds, but nothing works as well as good old-fashioned bleach in the lungs.
[14:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:50] <exec> 08└─It needs to be mixed with ammonia for extra effectiveness.
[14:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:52] <exec> 08└─Next steps, learn how to aim these "arrows". At present it sounds like this antibiotic is indiscriminate and will also kill all the desirable bacteria that we need--for example to digest food...
[14:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:54] <exec> 08└─Nah, hydrogen peroxide. That produces lots of oxygen. Has to be good for the lungs if that's the case, yeah?
[14:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:57] <exec> 08└─Plenty of antibiotics already do that. You get them back quickly enough after you've finished the course though. Faster if you don't go nuts with sanitizing everything.
[14:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:59] <exec> 08└─Don't get too fucking fancy with all your chemicals and la-de-dah else you might find some tear gas heading your way. In fact, that might be just what you need.
[14:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:19] <exec> 08└─You make my girl dick so hard, APK. It just wants to slide up between your asscheeks and fill you with estrogen cum.
[14:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:21] <exec> 08└─Do the end users agree on an encryption key? No, so rest assured the Government has access guaranteed by zoom.
[14:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─Came here to say the same thing. Suburban/rural gas stations have plenty of room for a car to sit while charging, but not so much for some city gas stations I've seen which barely have room for a couple of cars at the pumps, total. One car parked/charging would drop their gasoline sales in ~half dur...
[14:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─> It's so you can take photos in your shithole 1-bedroom apartment and then post them to your Instagram account showing off your international travel lifestyle, with you in Hawaii, Borneo, Phuket, the Bahamas, ... There really should be a "+1 true yet depressing" mod for this one. Saying that, I tho...
[14:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:32] <exec> 08└─> USPS has a monopoly Isn't the Post Office defined in the USA Constitution. Not a monopoly, a government function.
[14:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to printf() - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:02] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The code is actually dozens of lines long. Calling it "1 line" is like saying MS Word is only 1 line because all you need to type is word.exe.
[14:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to printf() - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─That's not exactly an explanation now is it?
[14:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:52] <exec> 08└─We know how you're going to spend it too.
[14:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Ebola Outbreak Flares Up as Measles, COVID-19 Rage in DRC - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:53] <exec> 08└─Something tells me Jenny won't be personally testing the vitamins+goop theory of immunological response to multiple viruses in a warzone and compounded by malnutrition (SHOCK!). Ship those black bastards some Vit-K. Possibly she's busy working on her inflammatory style.
[14:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:23] <exec> 08└─> I don't believe it. Your so smart.
[14:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:25] <exec> 08└─That seems like SN lately... just sayin'. Gotta feed the shithards.
[14:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Virus Face Masks Plague Hong Kong's Beaches - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:38] <exec> 08└─You had me at light brutality. +1 By dudes in black outfits and masks? Hello? How did we get here?!?
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[15:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:12] <exec> 08└─Which is why the FBI will use the same unconstitutional national security letters to ensure that they still have access no matter what happens. It really disgusts me the way that the corporate media and judiciary have gone along with it. But, packing courts with incompetent judges that will allow wh...
[15:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:14] <exec> 08└─Key exchange is pretty much always a weak spot when trying to encrypt communications. Do any of these services actually use public key cryptography with the ability to create your own key?
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:35] <exec> 08└─You sound like you need some girl cock bouncing around inside of you like a bounce house, cumming estrogen inside of you and turning you into a dick girl as waves of feminine pleasure begin to crash over your body. JOIN US
[15:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─Oh sorry about that. Angry ethnic males of military age become enraged when peaceful home-owners exercise their rights.
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:14] <exec> 08└─Now, I know, my comment will be censored to -1 to avoid answering this simple question. But why are we paying for "research" like this when there are far more important problems to be solved like the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change?
[15:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─This hardly deserved a downmod. That's precisely the point. For those using computers 20 years ago or even 10-15 years ago, the idea of paying a subscription was largely restricted to business environments where the subscription was coming with more than just the software keys. For software that doe...
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[16:21:44] <exec> 08└─Press moments are only there to waste your time. Best to spend all of that time insulting and belittling the present press stooges. If they had anything better to do, they wouldn't be there anyway. When you're done insulting them in person, you can return to discussing more important issues on your...
[16:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How CNET Got Banned by Google in 2005 and Won in the End - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:46] <exec> 08└─Words of wisdom in the current slashcode quote: NEVER RESPOND TO CRITICAL PRESS. IT IS A GAME YOU CAN ONLY LOSE, AND IT MAKES US LOOK BAD. -- Bruce Perens
[16:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:58] <exec> 08└─If someone is bad enough to need something this strong, patient is usually in hospital and antibiotic is usually delivered IV. It can still disrupt digestion and they'll give probiotics too. At least they should.
[16:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:00] <exec> 08└─Now we can get on with important things like what Kim Kardashian's wearing to Kanye's funeral.
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─APK APK APK
[16:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:24] <exec> 08└─Get a list of keywords and phrases that are "problematic" in China (or your target country of choice) and not a problem in your country and other countries you'd want to go to. Then start up Zoom and fire away with that list... For bonus points get more creative with the video and keywords.
[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─maybe use jitsi instead. Or roll your own webrtc if you're feeling javascripty.
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─Great ideas and hopefully that's how the world will go. In USA charging spots are popping up everywhere. I know people who are working for very major companies who are in the planning and building stages of very high-power chargers, including wireless ones for delivery vehicles. Thinking about your...
[16:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:08] <exec> 08└─I think it's interesting how butt hurt the Boomers are at being called out for pretty much destroying the world for their own selfish ends. They got there's, so the hell with the rest of us.
[16:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:09] <exec> 08└─I've often times wondered about using machine learning to "fix" things like that. Obviously, you can't fix missing image detail, but you could potentially add image detail that looks like it belongs. Same goes for upsizing old cartoons. Machines should be very good at figuring out how to make those...
[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PhotoRoom Automagically Removes Background from Your Photo - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─Neural Networks Upscale Film From 1896 to 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot on a Modern Smartphone [soylentnews.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] This AI Clears Up Your Hazy Photos [youtube.com] 3D Style Transfer For Video is Now Possible! [youtube.com] Finally, AI-Based Pai...
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[16:26:33] <exec> 08└─> Things that shoot around corners, over walls and other barricades, and target through narrow passageways (like an open manhole cover). Didn't they try that in WW1 with gases? And in Vietnam with carpet bombing? Turns out that shooting around corners, over walls and other barricades isn't that effe...
[16:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Combat Drone to Compete Against Piloted Plane - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─If US soldiers were trained like US cops, they'd be killing happily and guilt-free whether they're killing with a drone or up close and personal. https://www.npr.org [npr.org] https://www.rawstory.com
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[17:21:53] <exec> 08└─None of their staff writers are transgendered, and they refuse to print anything about the shocking lack of transgendered CEOs in tech companies.
[17:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How CNET Got Banned by Google in 2005 and Won in the End - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:54] <exec> 08└─I know you shouldn't feed the trolls, but your argument fails the no true Scotsman fallacy test. How does "no transgenered staff" automatically equate to "no articles about lack of transgenered CEOs?" As much as we bicker and call each other names, in general we are critical thinkers that recognize...
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[17:22:11] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, and it's ridiculous that we still have doctors prescribing antibiotics without knowing what strain of bacteria that they're targeting or taking precautions to protect/replace the innocent bystanders that get killed in the process. Bacteria are a huge part of our immune system as well as...
[17:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─Probiotics aren't really enough, probiotics will help a bit in terms of pushing things back towards the previous balance, but only if the ecosystem hasn't been completely trashed to begin with. What's more, you need a lot of probiotics to make much of a difference. The better thing to do is to just...
[17:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:14] <exec> 08└─how fast will this compound break down once it it gets excreted and is released into the environment when, not if, it gets over used by cattle/food industry?
[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─There ain't no such thing as a business offering consumer-grade communications that the government can't get into without the consumers' knowledge. And the reason has jack squat to do with the promises said business made to the consumers, or the level of encryption used, and everything to do with th...
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─I have a question: if you're a smart criminal in the US and you want to use encrypted messaging to communicate your nefarious plans with your minions, why would you use a US-based messaging system? It's not like the US is the only source of such software. Seems to me it'd make a lot more sense to us...
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─Telegram - free and 100% secure. Government tried to bull it and failed.
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─Not my experience at all. For ~10-player online games, I've found it works brilliantly well. No choppiness at all, even when multiple people start talking at once. It's totally unlike, for instance, Facebook Messenger's video chat, which can't even handle a simple two-person convo without the audio...
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─maybe use jitsi instead. Yeah, I wish open source would make the news on this stuff. I would like to see how the authorities try to stop them.
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─It would appear that no business will be allowed to sell secure communications. What can the cops do about open source/free software? Will they demand deep packet inspection from the ISPs to block any unauthorized encryption?
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─LOUD YOU SAY? Yeah, same here in US. In fact, annoyingly at best, many stations have TV screens on the pumps with loud obnoxious high-energy news, commercials, etc., and NO WAY to adjust volume or mute it. I wear earplugs frequently (for just such reasons) and it's still annoying as can be. Maybe th...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─While I applaud the move, I can't help wondering how much of this is fueled by Volkswagen's recent commitment to electric vehicles.
[17:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry you got modded troll. I hate the mod system more and more each day. It ruins a perfectly stimulating discussion. Yes, AC's comment is a bit trollish, but so what? It made me think of a counter-argument: Use petrol to run fuel cell in a hybrid system with enough batteries to provide higher amps...
[17:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:15] <exec> 08└─>it will oblige all petrol stations to offer electric car charging What better place for hi ampere currents, sparks and lithium than a gas station? Isn't that the same place with pictograms that say NO CELLPHONE YOU FUCKING ISIS TERRORIST WANNABE? Other considerations that a 12 year old might have g...
[17:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─Why does the stupid platform have tips in the first place? How about this crazy, insane idea (by American standards): have a price posted, and if the customer likes the price and what's offered, he pays the advertised price, and gets the product or service? Is this really such a hard concept for Ame...
[17:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:13] <exec> 08└─It is a monopoly. No one else can deliver anything to what should be my mailbox. That's a monopoly. and in countries where such monopolies were removed the doomsday scenarios that everyone screamed about never happened.
[17:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:15] <exec> 08└─"Isn't the Post Office defined in the USA Constitution." I don't mind the government keeping the USPS if they want. I want them to remove the mailbox monopoly.
[17:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:17] <exec> 08└─and I hear that some of that is really protest sabotagers breaking windows and vandalizing places so that they can make the protesters look bad. We don't really know the extent of that problem, it's not like those doing it are going to admit to it, but it is something to consider. I hear that peacef...
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─Here is an article about it. "Beware white supremacists masquerading among Baltimore protesters | READER COMMENTARY" https://www.baltimoresun.com [baltimoresun.com] Someone I know atten...
[17:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to printf() - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:50] <exec> 08└─In sufficient number that all parameters could be set randomly at runtime, eliminating the need for any inputs.
[17:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to printf() - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:51] <exec> 08└─...to say "Hi" to Wink Martindale for me.
[17:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breaking the Mold: an Unusual Choice of Material Yields Incredibly Long-lasting Batteries - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:14] <exec> 08└─For VTOL (not "VTAL"), they have this: the F-35B used by the Marines is either VTOL or short-take-off. It's the one that has big fans in the wings. For weapons that shoot around corners etc., there was a movie in the 80s about this, starring Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons (!), called "Runaway". For a...
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[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─The Chinese government has backdoors in pretty much anything they want backdoors in. NSLs aren't something that they need an equivalent for. You'd be better off with something that's being provided out of Europe where wanting to remain anonymous or having things kept private isn't an automatic flag...
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:50] <exec> 08└─What can the cops do about open source/free software?
[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:52] <exec> 08└─if you use a centralized "platform" from any country you're a fucking idiot and deserve to get caught.
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─You're really not supposed to be charging to 100% each time. We did that with gasoline cars because filling a little versus all the way was a relatively small difference in time. With electric vehicles, you're supposed to be charging them at the ends, plug it in at home or at the office. If you're o...
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─Pretty much, it's amazing all the places that advertisers are allowed to advertise these days. The best thing you can do is make a note of the companies that are doing the advertising and not buy anything from them. Eventually, they should get the message.
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[19:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How CNET Got Banned by Google in 2005 and Won in the End - 1847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:59] <exec> 08└─Agenda is sorta of not even the 'right' thing to call it. This guy points out our media is controlled by a *very* *very* small group of people. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The stories they tell or do not tell are what they want us to hear. If this group of people did n...
[19:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How CNET Got Banned by Google in 2005 and Won in the End - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:01] <exec> 08└─Hell yea we be dick girls. You know we don't fuck no cislesbian pussy. But we do fuck a whole lotta assholes. Dick girls gonna gonna fill yo asshole with girl jizz and ban yo manhood.
[19:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:20] <exec> 08└─So eat yoghurt after your treatment. Or get a fecal transplant from someone as healthy as you aspire to be.
[19:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:21] <exec> 08└─Nah, hydrogen peroxide. That produces lots of oxygen. Has to be good for the lungs if that's the case, yeah?
[19:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:23] <exec> 08└─Biologists have known for decades that you can target specific strains of bacteria by using phages resulting in little, if any, disruption to the other bacteria in the body. It's already in the food supply and has been for years, it just hasn't been used in humans in the US.
[19:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:56] <exec> 08└─if you're a smart criminal in the US and you want to use encrypted messaging to communicate your nefarious plans with your minions,
[19:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─in discussions like this, and the answer I've seen was basically "it just works", and I have to agree.
[19:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:59] <exec> 08└─Given the way Zoom puts multiple video feeds together, presumably at the server, it's likely much more difficult to do true end-to-end encryption without greatly inflating bandwidth as you end up with separate video stream from each particiant currently on-screen. Their compositing at the server wil...
[19:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:02] <exec> 08└─So now we need a seven dollar wrench to defend ourselves
[19:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 1607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:29] <exec> 08└─Most EV drivers - especially new ones - will still generally top-up whenever they can, but that is probably partly a historical symptom of range anxiety and the relative scarcity of charge points. I used to do that, but I'm now quite comfortable with leaving my PHEV partially charged on the drive if...
[19:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:42] <exec> 08└─It should be set up that you can increase your tip from zero *after* delivery. Eliminating tip-baiting can easily be done by not allowing you to tip before delivery at all. Or, of course, rejecting after the fact tip decreases.
[19:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:13] <exec> 08└─What other reasons would the Mayans have a railgun? Ritual sacrifice? They weren't Aztecs.
[19:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:14] <exec> 08└─They probably don't make those in rural Guatemala.
[19:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Exempts HBO Max From Data Caps but Still Limits Your Netflix Use - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:37] <exec> 08└─While possibly true in limited instances, this is largely ridiculous bullshit. The white agitators are going to be 1) antifa 2) feds and cops. 3) nuts of various stripes. Cultural Marxist diversion notwithstanding.
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[20:21:47] <exec> 08└─Sure is quiet on SN today. Too quiet.
[20:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How CNET Got Banned by Google in 2005 and Won in the End - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:01] <exec> 08└─And Bruce would know. Can't say how, but just trust me.
[20:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:59] <exec> 08└─And users who can only afford free service are unlikely to have the kind of hardware or network connexions that can support those multiple video streams anyway.
[20:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:42] <exec> 08└─Who in their right mind would tip for good service *before* actually receiving service?
[20:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instacart Makes Changes to Tip Policy Following Shopper Complaints - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─It helps to squeeze gig workers more.
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[21:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New QNAPCrypt Ransomware Campaign Targets QNAP NAS Devices - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:47] <exec> 08└─If you are hooking anything up to a network especially if any part is exposed to an external internet, you can be hacked. Doh...
[21:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fixes Android Flaws that Allow Code Execution with High System Rights - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:56] <exec> 08└─Good luck seeing these patches making their way to your android phone if it's more than a year old.
[21:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─Better than syringes?
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:32] <exec> 08└─Used since forever, for exact same reason; it is less probable to evolve resistance when a bacterium needs to resist two different things at once to survive. The way the resistance to this new compound will be evolved, is the same as with the multitude of single-target compounds before it; when some...
[21:22:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─Zoom is arguing that paying customers are a lower risk to engage in criminal activity than free customers?
[21:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:11] <exec> 08└─Decentralized systems! Strong encryption!
[21:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:12] <exec> 08└─Worked for Kim Dotcom.
[21:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:42] <exec> 08└─I like your thinking, however their mindset is such that they'll just do more, louder, and more invasive advertising. They know it'll work somehow eventually, even if through the "there no such thing as bad publicity" effect.
[21:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:44] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_holes [wikipedia.org]
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[22:21:50] <exec> 08└─It never ceases to amaze me that after several decades of examples, so many still don't understand one stupid-simple fact: If it has an internet connection, it will be hacked. Don't want it hacked? Then air-gap it. I stand unmoved by arguments that 'x' needs access for 'y' reason. Yeah, so? Newsflas...
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[22:21:59] <exec> 08└─All the Soylentils are outside enjoying fresh air now that Codid-19 has been cured by righteous indignation. #BLM
[22:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Fixes Android Flaws that Allow Code Execution with High System Rights - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:01] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? Version 5.7 of the Linux kernel just released and we're all busy installing it.
[22:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How CNET Got Banned by Google in 2005 and Won in the End - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:14] <exec> 08└─If you think that all newspapers and other media are "in cahoots" you're mad. I've worked for small newspapers. It's chaos, not massaged messaging. Yes, I fully believe that Murdoch-owned might have some bad policies, which dictate what opinions are OK to present, and what facts. But the "small grou...
[22:22:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─Biologists have known for decades that you can target specific strains of bacteria by using phages resulting in little, if any, disruption to the other bacteria in the body. It's already in the food supply and has been for years, it just hasn't been used in humans in the US.
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's impossible to find a "perfect" antibiotic. But it might end up being a nanomachine instead of a chemical.
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─It's not that easy. C. diff colonization and the resulting pseudomembranous colitis and dangerous diarrhea is a huge problem, and you don't get your gut flora back with just a couple of weeks of Chobani and oatmeal, or even probiotic supplements. Not to mention, fluoroquinolones like ciprofloxacin (...
[22:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─My big fear about phage therapy is that, although viruses technically aren't alive, they do still have nucleic acids and as such are prone to random mutation, genetic drift, and all the other natural selection processes "really living" organisms are. Who is to say one of these things won't mutate in...
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antibiotic SCH-79797 Punctures Bacterial Walls, Destroys Folate, Apparently Immune to Resistance - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─They say it doesn't affect human cells... much: It’s the holy grail of antibiotics research: an antibiotic that is effective against diseases and immune to resistance while being safe in humans (unlike rubbing alcohol or bleach, which are irresistibly fatal to human cells and bacterial cells alike...
[22:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─It's a waste to use a seven dollars wrench against a five dollars wrench The right tool is a fifty-six dollars screw [bigbolts.com]
[22:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:41] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the measured and useful response. Hopefully the good actor, non-troll ACs pay attention to the ideas you list. It'd make for better conversations here. But yeah, thanks - not just for the info you provided, but also for how you phrased it. Gentle, chiding, but not mean or demeaning. Not a...
[22:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:42] <exec> 08└─1) Naming past workers "men", who presented as men, isn't being sexist any more than calling Winston Churchill a man is sexist. These aren't hypothetical workers, but concrete people the author interacted with in the past. If there had been women among them, the author could (should!) have said so....
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[23:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:44] <exec> 08└─Replace 'bleach' with 'soap' in the second section, and you're not going to go hazardously far wrong. And since soap and water has a dual-action mechanism (at least according to Alton Brown) of emulsifying and stripping the delivery mechanism [youtube.com] from viruses, why aren't people abusing and...
[23:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:46] <exec> 08└─everyone who responded to the survey was not dead. so we don't know how many have killed themselves gargling bleach or inhaling bleach vapours (or injecting it, or whatever) further, we don't know how dumb they were before they admitted doing stupid stuff (dumb enough to do it..), only that they wer...
[23:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:48] <exec> 08└─Washed fruits, vegetables, or other food products with bleach
[23:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:50] <exec> 08└─Did it make them dumber?
[23:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:52] <exec> 08└─At least these people are not using Windows and trying not to catch the virus!
[23:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:54] <exec> 08└─Trump (even GOP) is planning to lost election, by killing off his followers. 1) Their is no COVID-19 its just the flu. 2) GOP suing to force everyone to go to polls and vote... That raised COVID-19 rate in state. 3) Stupid ideas like injecting cleaners. And you got this story. Now if the offer a Koo...
[23:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:57] <exec> 08└─I'll stick to Tide Pods.
[23:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:59] <exec> 08└─And 100+ BLM protestors right next to each other won't spread COVID? Stupidity is pretty universal.
[23:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New QNAPCrypt Ransomware Campaign Targets QNAP NAS Devices - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:09] <exec> 08└─More realistic headline: “New ransomware “hack” exploits morons that shouldn’t own computers...”
[23:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fixes Android Flaws that Allow Code Execution with High System Rights - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:21] <exec> 08└─What is this mysterious "outside" of which you speak?
[23:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How CNET Got Banned by Google in 2005 and Won in the End - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─How much coverage of politics can a small newspaper muster? For the most part, they'll buy stories from the AP, who are definitely part of the conglomerate. You also have True Believer reporters that meet to agree on the political line to take, regardless of what the paper's owners want. All in all,...
[23:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zoom Says Free Users Won’t Get End-to-End Encryption so FBI and Police Can Access Calls - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:43] <exec> 08└─Its not as hard as you think and there are already implementations, the biggest and (somewhat) browser compatible being Jitsi. Most implementations use a modified form of DTLS-SRTP. If you don't want to use un-bridged P2P, then you can just use a group key or session key setup. The biggest hurdle is...
[23:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─> Battery electric vehicle are inferior to ICE with liquid fuels wut > governments have to bribe and coerce people into using them wut?? In the urban centres near me, consumers are demanding more EV than ICE vehicles, and we stopped having any EV subsidies in 2018. The only reason there aren't a few...
[23:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:16] <exec> 08└─German electric tanks?
[23:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lidar Helps Uncover an Ancient, Kilometer-Long Mayan Structure - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─They tried hiring some blind guy but it just didn't work out.
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