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[00:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal can of Worms - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:58] <exec> 08└─See also: Customer supplied cable modem, cable company charges for equipment not delivered, let alone used. Thank you Ajit for not only showing me the proper way to bend over, but the preferred way to grab my ankles.
[00:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal can of Worms - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:00] <exec> 08└─Refusal to repair under warranty. Long term warranty is required for equipment (4yrs). So far reported to: 1) FDA 2) State AG 3) Insurance 4) Retailer 5) Provider Simple view: Buy new car, and gas gauge is broken. Manufacturer will not repair. When it fails after refueling and you cannot start the c...
[00:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal can of Worms - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:02] <exec> 08└─Are you saying Microsoft has to pay me for the shitfest of Windows that I put up with for 10 years before I switched to Linux?
[00:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nature’s Cosmic Hard Drive? Black Holes Could Store Information Like Holograms - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:47] <exec> 08└─"Daddy, where did Timmy's house go?" "He had a hard drive failure, son. That's why we don't buy Seagate anymore."
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[01:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─I can't believe there are a bunch of replies to this piece and none of them are Ethanol-Fueled raving about "The Jews" like an idiot.
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[01:24:59] <exec> 08└─Bi-directional time travel would appear to be infeasible
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[02:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:48] <exec> 08└─“Sorry for this mistake — we are clearly not perfect, but we correct course quickly. We will never revise typed in domains again, I promise.”
[02:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal can of Worms - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:04] <exec> 08└─Eh? You're entitled to legally distributed content. I thought the reasons Netflix blocks certain content is because they're not legally allowed to distribute in some countries as other medias already licensed to do so - specifically 3rd party content. How can Netflix be responsible for the crude arr...
[02:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal can of Worms - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:05] <exec> 08└─They host too many shows and movies with minorities for your taste huh?
[02:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal can of Worms - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:07] <exec> 08└─Send them a strongly worded email...and add a couple of drop bears as attachments. ;-)
[02:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal can of Worms - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:09] <exec> 08└─Netflix isn't quite a monopoly, but they are close, so it's hard to use the "Dump 'em and get another" option. Back "in the day" of dialup, one service I used started to struggle with too many subscribers, bandwidth plummeted. I was a newsfeed downloader, so between 3 and 7am I saturated the old 38....
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:22] <exec> 08└─Hmm, says here [wikipedia.org] #BlackLivesMatter does "Anti-racist advocacy and protest" and does not appear to be involved with anarchists or socialists. Some would claim the Antifa [wikipedia.org] movement is older and includes anarchists, socialists, and pacifists back to 1920s. Then there is the...
[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) is Coming to Linux - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:39] <exec> 08└─One too many hangs on Ubuntu. Went to FreeNAS and it is rock solid and just works. Runs for weeks, sometimes months, until an update needs to be installed or a power failure occurs. Jails are particularly nice and something I didn't think I'd appreciate until now. LXC and docker are out there, too,...
[02:23:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Community Roundtable: Monday, June 8th, 2020 - 1305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:17] <exec> 08└─That trend towards the complete dumbing down of discussion. Just compare the level of discussion any medium that does not allow images to those that do. I suspect it basically works as a 'barrier to entry'. Sites such as soylent obviously push away and all who cannot enjoy discussion without images,...
[02:23:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Community Roundtable: Monday, June 8th, 2020 - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─Don't do it The legal hassles just aren't worth it, at least wait until we elect a congress that will put in place real protection. Still got a few months. Happy hunting.
[02:24:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Community Roundtable: Monday, June 8th, 2020 - 2679 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:15] <exec> 08└─We have always encouraged original material provided that it meets all the other requirements that are expected of front page material. The expected topics are the ones that we have always covered. So, if you have something that you have researched or even have a significant interest in and which fi...
[02:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:15] <exec> 08└─Huh! Really? The parent offers an excellent, practical and cheap advice to raise the IQ in US, should be modded +Insightful.
[02:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:17] <exec> 08└─Hmm, interesting. Never heard of adding corrosion inhibitors to the water supply before, perhaps due to the water here being not particularly corrosive (snow melt). Looking at my governments guidelines , it does seem expensive just to monitor and educate the users about the lead in water, little wel...
[02:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:56] <exec> 08└─It's kinda funny we still revert to legacy thinking with new technology. There's no reason why we need to keep the old way to refueling, i.e. via dedicated "hubs" owned by special purpose companies. There's ample opportunity to change the way refueling economy works. City councils and even private e...
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[03:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:00] <exec> 08└─And didn't have the balls to declare his large enough to have to report donations to anti-gay marriage campaigns during the California proposition on it until it got brought up after his election as president or ceo or whatever of Mozilla. (For the record, Mozilla should have vetted him for controve...
[03:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal can of Worms - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:20] <exec> 08└─Simple view: Buy new car, and gas gauge is broken. Manufacturer will not repair.
[03:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SPACEX ISS Docking Simulator Easter Egg - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:09] <exec> 08└─https://preview.redd.it/3y9e7zxtup351.png?width=922&format=png&auto=webp&s=36805d22a329801815235cf4089085826a5ca197 [preview.redd.it] https://preview.redd.it [preview.redd.it] https://preview.redd.it
[03:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SPACEX ISS Docking Simulator Easter Egg - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:10] <exec> 08└─One-sided graphics.
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[04:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:00] <exec> 08└─Would someone be able to clarify? Was this: "mistake", as in: "sorry, I ate all the cookies on the plate, I thought there were plenty more in the jar" (a.k.a a "genuine mistake"); or;"mistake", as in: "I finished the cookies, I had hoped you wouldn't notice and I am sorry [for myself] that you...
[04:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:01] <exec> 08└─They claimed to be privacy-oriented, but all the news about them seem just about the opposite. Who fall for this shit?
[04:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, won't somebody think of the bureaucrats? My real concern is that VPNs are so easy to detect and block. Guess we need something new.
[04:22:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) is Coming to Linux - 547 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:42] <exec> 08└─Pretty much, it seems foolish to me to add a second OS flavor for this kind of task. This is one of the rains that Linux has always had issues that you don't see in other Oses. I have had more nonessential data destroyed by Linux distros than all other OSes I've used combined. The general lack of de...
[04:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) is Coming to Linux - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:51] <exec> 08└─If I really cared about my data, I'd probably stick with the FreeBSD version...
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[05:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:51] <exec> 08└─People who said nothing, or people who said neutral words? It could easily be that focusing on a task is what increases the threshold of pain.
[05:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Neurons Responsible for Memory Consolidation During REM Sleep - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:58] <exec> 08└─No no no, I've got this. Ok, I've got nothing. Where am I?
[05:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Neurons Responsible for Memory Consolidation During REM Sleep - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:00] <exec> 08└─You're in a simulation. Yes, this is the best one you could afford.
[05:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Neurons Responsible for Memory Consolidation During REM Sleep - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:02] <exec> 08└─I guess it really is just a matter of time, but memory tech is quite worrisome.
[05:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:12] <exec> 08└─I'd be most surprised if it was (1). This isn't their first controversy [wikipedia.org].
[05:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:14] <exec> 08└─People who don't follow tech news or dig much past a company's marketing materials.
[05:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:16] <exec> 08└─Even they would have to question how they fund their operation if they have any common sense. But then again, they may not know what a gargantuan operation it is to maintain a modern web browser.
[05:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:18] <exec> 08└─For the record, Mozilla should have vetted him for controversies like that BEFORE elevating him to the position, given their 'ultra liberal' attitude they should have understood the potential for disharmony if he was elected and simply not offered him the position, and he should have been more than...
[05:24:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Community Roundtable: Monday, June 8th, 2020 - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:47] <exec> 08└─In fact, the mod system HAS been discussed on SN before, with great ideas put forth by martyb, tmb, and other top admins. IIRC tmb even lost mod privileges for a month or so due to something I forget, so there is that penalty potential in place here.
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[06:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:51] <exec> 08└─This isn't the first time I've heard the theory, my guess is that proper swearing allows the brain to transfer some of the physical pain sensations into emotional processing.
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[06:21:52] <exec> 08└─Stay the fuck home, cocksucker! Fucking vadachod.
[06:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:54] <exec> 08└─The summary does not say, but which f-word specifically? Only one of them will get you banned from many forums for writing it repeatedly and that f-word is "Freedom", as in Software Freedom specifically. Some groups, with lots of influence, are really burned up by the idea of general purpose computi...
[06:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:18] <exec> 08└─The novelty in choosing Brave is its crypto-tokens. Opt-in to their 'approved' ads and you'll get some rewards. But it's chicken and egg; few websites I visit actually seemed to be donate aware so your tokens are worth not much. But it's yet another Chrome clone and I'm Stockholmed enough to still p...
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:40] <exec> 08└─For those outside the US and Europe, here's a quick summary of streaming in Australia, specifically of Britcoms: Netflix: We don't have it. Lightbox: We don't have it. Amazon: We have it but you can't watch it there. BBC: We have it but you can't watch it there. Apple TV: We don't have it. (Some of...
[06:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:54] <exec> 08└─I find the truth most effective, amusing how the trolls keep switching up their strategies as people catch on to their old ones. The new hotness is using the funny mod instead of flamebait or troll.
[06:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:56] <exec> 08└─He went AC for his shitposting. I think he tried out being a bit more serious than his usual screeds but still took flak and probably got his feelings hurt.
[06:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:58] <exec> 08└─Antifa is not an organization, like Anonymous. That makes it dead simple to accuse anyone of being a member, and should scare the shit out of everyone how Trump & Co. want to declare Antifa as terrorists. How the fascism creeps in and makes it easy to punish political opponents.
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[07:21:55] <exec> 08└─I believe the word TFA is referring to is "fuck".
[07:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SPACEX ISS Docking Simulator Easter Egg - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:32] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what I'm looking at, but it makes more sense than the Time Cube guy. So, kudos for that, I guess.
[07:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nature’s Cosmic Hard Drive? Black Holes Could Store Information Like Holograms - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:37] <exec> 08└─Which one of the infinite number of Feynmann diagrams that represent neutron decay (no need for scare quotes, it's dropping to a lower energy state, it's a decay) are you thinking of?
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[08:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast Radio Burst 121102 Repeats Every 157 Days - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:47] <exec> 08└─Relax, it's easy once you break their encryption and toss back a Pepsi. It's a book called, "TO SERVE MAN [wikipedia.org]." On the last page there's a flyer for humans to sign up for private tours on their home planet! What's not to like?
[08:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:00] <exec> 08└─Can you see me now?
[08:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:25] <exec> 08└─Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' and full stop. No need to add anything more, the circle is complete. I'd rather use the cutting edge links2 browser. At least I know it's not pumping me in the chocolate starfish when I'm not looking.
[08:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:48] <exec> 08└─Lol I am part of a minority too, millie.
[08:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:49] <exec> 08└─Why am I reminded of xkcd [xkcd.com]?
[08:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:51] <exec> 08└─Are you saying Microsoft has to pay me for the shitfest of Windows that I put up with for 10 years before I switched to Linux?
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[09:21:51] <exec> 08└─Nah, they're just reporting back about their recent shipment from N/\S/\ of all the coronavirus bodies sent for "experimentation" purposes. Why else do you go to space than to trade with the aliens? Although, according to one video by Terry Davis, TempleOS was meant to be a "space alien trading post...
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[09:25:55] <exec> 08└─Sure, it all goes well until your gods die and you don't know the combination of their safe. BEHOLD! A GOD THAT BLEEDS! I......... AM............ KIROK!
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[10:21:50] <exec> 08└─Dashing and daring, Courageous and caring, Faithful and friendly, With stories to share. All through the forest, They sing out in chorus, Marching along, As their song fills the air. Gummi Bears!! Bouncing here and there and everywhere. High adventure that's beyond compare. They are the Gummi Bears....
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[10:22:09] <exec> 08└─The summary does not say, but which f-word specifically? Only one of them will get you banned from many forums for writing it repeatedly and that f-word is "Freedom", as in Software Freedom specifically. Some groups, with lots of influence, are really burned up by the idea of general purpose computi...
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[10:22:22] <exec> 08└─Thunder, thunder Thundercats, ho Thundercats Are on the move Thundercats are loose Feel the magic Hear the roar Thundercats are loose Thunder, thunder Thunder, Thundercats Thunder, thunder Thunder, Thundercats Thunder, thunder Thunder, Thundercats Thunder, thunder Thunder, Thundercats Thundercats
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[10:22:40] <exec> 08└─The modern Privacy (R)(TM) has just nothing to do with privacy. It can be seen in "Privacy policies" which have nothing in common with privacy. The same thing is with Mozilla: We respect Privacy (R)(TM) so we sell your history to Cloudflare, a service known from forcing users to run obfuscated code...
[10:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:05] <exec> 08└─Are you saying Microsoft has to pay me for the shitfest of Windows that I put up with for 10 years before I switched to Linux?
[10:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:07] <exec> 08└─No, Microsoft should pay you too for the shitfest that is Linux.
[10:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:24] <exec> 08└─I can't paaaaaaaaaaaaaay! (passing counterfeit bill)
[10:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploit Code for Wormable Flaw on Unpatched Windows Devices Published Online - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:20] <exec> 08└─source?
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[11:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03claywar [3069] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:07] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I believe you misspelled 'systemd.' That really gets my emotional processing going.
[11:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Neurons Responsible for Memory Consolidation During REM Sleep - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:18] <exec> 08└─So no hot lady in red or Kung-Fu? Is that what you are telling me? Shiiiiiit ..... So back to the article. Does this mean that we'll eventually see memory-pills, better learning drugs and well just pills that removes (or minimize) the need for sleep -- not sure I'm going to like the last one, I lik...
[11:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Neurons Responsible for Memory Consolidation During REM Sleep - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:20] <exec> 08└─Enhancement will likely, via drugs, come from forcing the brain fo stay in learning mode. So more sleep, probably less enjoyable.
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[11:22:38] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956
[11:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SPACEX ISS Docking Simulator Easter Egg - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:02] <exec> 08└─I noticed the texture image downloaded (see network tab in chrome) includes a set of windows with people waving. I flew around for ages but could not find them on the model. Not sure if these are supposed to be the astronauts or the programmers.
[11:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SPACEX ISS Docking Simulator Easter Egg - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:04] <exec> 08└─"backface culling", to be technical.
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[12:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:53] <exec> 08└─Some organisms (like shellfish) collect and concentrate garbage from the environment. In a clean environment it's a good strategy for getting every last bit of available food. In a poisonous environment it's a good strategy for making yourself poisonous to things that might eat you. The milkweed gen...
[12:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:02] <exec> 08└─Oh my, now you've done it. Just when everybody thought it was hard work and attention to detail. You have let out the secret of GB.
[12:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast Radio Burst 121102 Repeats Every 157 Days - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:12] <exec> 08└─This is absolute proof of alien civilization since all naturally occurring fast radio bursts are non-prime.
[12:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:26] <exec> 08└─There should be one giant focus hole ... point ... in the middle of the chart tho so it could work.
[12:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:27] <exec> 08└─So, the very definition of politically incorrect, could be used to test alternate words. Whatever words are most upsetting or emotionally charged for the individual could be tested as well. Simply running down the Carlin list [youtube.com] isn't a high level emotional hit for everybody. We had an el...
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[12:22:29] <exec> 08└─Perhaps she just watched Goldfinger and had sweet thoughts about Sean Connery?
[12:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Neurons Responsible for Memory Consolidation During REM Sleep - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─Thundercats are loose
[12:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SPACEX ISS Docking Simulator Easter Egg - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:26] <exec> 08└─Not sure about backface culling, it seems more like any orientation not between 145 and -145 degrees yaw just "shuts off" the car.
[12:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patterned Optical Chips That Emit Chaotic Light Waves Keep Secrets Perfectly Safe - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:40] <exec> 08└─That time-travel link was amusing, especially its mention of "classical quantum gravity". "classical" and "quantum" were once opposites!
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[12:26:42] <exec> 08└─So, they introduce randomness with a fingerprint. How, then are they going to reproduce the key at the destination? mail the silicon chip to the destination? But you need the chip when you send the message, so you can't send the chip ahead of time. And the whole point of the "thermodynamical equilib...
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[13:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:51] <exec> 08└─Yet, it is way too fast (30-40 years) for that same genome of milkweed, to suddenly acquire traits similar to that for shellfish - again a result of millions of years of evolution - as an aid of keeping predators away. How can you miss out on something for millions of years and then suddenly catch u...
[13:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:53] <exec> 08└─European mushrooms collect and concentrate Cs137 [www.bfs.de], which stops humans from eating them. Damn clever, those mushrooms.
[13:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:55] <exec> 08└─Americans evolve 3-10 times during their life. Drinking bleach helps them to. How else do you think they stay the fittest, at the top of the food chain?
[13:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:57] <exec> 08└─I'm going to go with: milkweed was so ridiculously successful it didn't have to worry about monarch predation. The filter feeder thing was just there - maybe for the collection of nutrients advantage - our pesticides just "stepped in it" and the monarchs, relying on a monoculture foodsource, are pay...
[13:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:59] <exec> 08└─How else do you think they stay the fittest, at the top of the food chain?
[13:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 1915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:01] <exec> 08└─I'd extend your remarks with plants don't have a fast circulatory system or excretion system like animals, so once its sprayed with something that doesn't oxidize or photo-dissociate in UV or otherwise is persistent, its just not going away. Animals at least slowly pee out lead and other heavy metal...
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast Radio Burst 121102 Repeats Every 157 Days - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─"What the hell is a 'day'?" -Alien
[13:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast Radio Burst 121102 Repeats Every 157 Days - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─"What the spa fon is 'helll'?" --Another alien.
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─It's a good word, made Richie Havens famous -- https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Thanks for the inspiring post!
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─I seriously doubt it's the actual word that matters. If anything it's probably conditioning to swearing and not the actual word. After all they got to pick a word from a list to say -- fuck, fouch (sounds a bit like fuck, but not quite), twizpipe (what the actual fuck is that?) and a neutral word de...
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Neurons Responsible for Memory Consolidation During REM Sleep - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─You will see anti-PTSD pills to dampen specific memories (with therapy), and tDCS for learning [bigthink.com]. For sleep there is caffeine, modafinil, amphetamine/methamphetamine [wikipedia.org], etc. "Curing sleep" requires you to deal with effects like this [scientificamerican.com], or you're just...
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[13:23:13] <exec> 08└─>>But then again, they may not know what a gargantuan operation it is to maintain a modern web browser. Tell that to the man who writes Pale Moon. The reality is that 99.9% of the labor on most modern web browsers is used in writing Code of Conduct, enforcing CoC, cleaning and maintaining separate b...
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[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─You guys just don't understand what it is like at the top of one of these projects. Look at Zuck. He's been VERY sorry too. Many times. Many many times. He always lets you know that they are learning from these mistakes and that they've heard the message "loud and clear" and that they'll never do it...
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[14:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:49] <exec> 08└─Isn't it time we restored the Moon's independent rotation? Something for the next lunar missions to work toward: I'm thinking of a couple of nuclear powered thrusters blasting tangentially (for many years), on opposite sides of the Moon's equator (rotation only, no translational thrust to upset the...
[14:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:51] <exec> 08└─We must launch an Attack on Titan
[14:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:53] <exec> 08└─We need to build a wall. 3 of them to be exact.
[14:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:07] <exec> 08└─The organic is pesticide free
[14:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:08] <exec> 08└─Yet, it is way too fast (30-40 years) for that same genome of milkweed, to suddenly acquire traits similar to that for shellfish
[14:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:18] <exec> 08└─I would have a greater level of confidence if they were baked by little elves in a hollow tree.
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[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─6.67430(15)×10−11m3kg-1s-2 [wikipedia.org] 6.62607015×10−34Js [wikipedia.org] 299,792,458m/s [wikipedia.org] 9.1093837015(28)×10−31kg [wikipedia.org] 1.602176634×10−19 C [wikipedia.org] atomic mass/number [wikipedia.org] etc., etc., etc.
[14:25:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Community Roundtable: Monday, June 8th, 2020 - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:50] <exec> 08└─I vote against all images. If something needs an image, it can be by link elsewhere. The character of the site will change with images and if allowed in the comments, it will become even more antagonistic. Just look at twitter and facebook and all of the cruel, logically flawed, worthless memes for...
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[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─carport?
[15:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─Carbaryl has been around forever. These declines have not. I would imagine it's a problem of newer pesticides.
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:16] <exec> 08└─How can you miss out on something for millions of years and then suddenly catch up within 40 years?
[15:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:27] <exec> 08└─Now that SpaceX has gotten two astronauts in orbit, there are no remaining life critical phases of the mission that could possibly require attention to detail. <no-sarcasm> While I agree Starship is and should be a development priority, making a speech like this can send the wrong message and set th...
[15:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─>so now manned space fright is second (or lower) priority. I see it as saying that manned space flight should go beyond LEO and back to the Moon via Artemis and Starship as the lander. Make space accessible and cheap so that flights/landings to the moon are as regular as flights to the ISS.
[15:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:30] <exec> 08└─In 100 years of fiction, a "star ships" travel beyond one star system and into another. SpaceX's interplanetary transport system it's an awe-inspiring project and it deserves our respect, but I with they'd stop calling it a star ship.
[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─They aren't talking about the interstellar drive publicly yet.
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─I have such a high pain threshhold.
[15:24:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:40] <exec> 08└─For the record, Mozilla should have vetted him for controversies like that BEFORE elevating him to the position, given their 'ultra liberal' attitude they should have understood the potential for disharmony if he was elected and simply not offered him the position, and he should have been more than...
[15:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:14] <exec> 08└─Netflix isn't quite a monopoly, but they are close, so it's hard to use the "Dump 'em and get another" option.
[15:27:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hubie [1068] 02 - 06Community Roundtable: Monday, June 8th, 2020 - 1110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:47] <exec> 08└─I think this is a great idea. I'm one of the 10% mentioned that always browses at -1, and I always have even on the green site. I have always shared the concern that there is a lot of very good stuff at or even below 0 that gets missed by people who refuse to lower their threshold. Perhaps to use mo...
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[15:28:31] <exec> 08└─Each person that knows a secret is also a point of vulnerability, and always will be.
[15:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:41] <exec> 08└─Ya, but it involved the wrong skin tones so the resident racists couldn't have that.
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[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─We were lucky if our wind turbine towers were made out of mud. Kids today don't know how good they have it.
[16:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:48] <exec> 08└─You are lucky! When I was a kid we wished we had a turbine of mud. Our tower was made of sand and we had to get up at 4 am every morning and blow at the turbine until it produced enough electricity to set off the alarm clock to wake us up at 6 am and our father would beat us while doing it! And we l...
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:01] <exec> 08└─https://genius.com/Italo-calvino-the-distance-of-the-moon-annotated [genius.com] the full book: https://irenebrination.typepad.com [typepad.com]
[16:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─The distance between Earth and Titan is depending on each objects current orbital location somewhere between 1,200,217,664 km and 1,666,681,075 km. For simplicity lets take the closest distance possible, so that would be 120,021,766,400,000 cm away. So if it drifts away at 11 cm per year on some kin...
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─Fun fact - organic produce is often coated in even higher levels of pesticides than "normal" produce. They simply use naturally-derived pesticids instead of synthetic ones. Welcome to what happens when Corporate America is allowed to lobby for the watering down of food labeling laws.
[16:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:22] <exec> 08└─Well duh, naturally-derived pesticides are healthy so the more you have the better off you are.
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[16:22:37] <exec> 08└─i hope the "SN4" blew up because everything for normal operation worked but they just dialed everything up to 120% just to see where the limits are ... and not some random failure? tbh, i am kindda just following the development "thru the bushes"; don't want to jinx it. anyways, not to distract from...
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─Whether Elon blesses that plan or not, it may simply be more practical to use starship to go to the moon first. Use star ship heavy booster to build bigger private space stations, with a McDonalds and refueling station. As much as Mars is exciting, wouldn't it be a bit more practical to build a moon...
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─His position seems pretty clear to me - risk-reduction for Crew Dragon is still a priority, but other than that, Dragon is a dead-end project. There's no long-term future for it, it's a stop-gap solution to secure funding from NASA until Starship is certified to take over. Moreover, Crew Dragon is s...
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[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─Yea I dunno why they censored it off The Friggin Article.
[16:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:19] <exec> 08└─Netflix isn't quite a monopoly, but they are close, so it's hard to use the "Dump 'em and get another" option.
[16:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) is Coming to Linux - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:56] <exec> 08└─You nuclear Gandhied [knowyourmeme.com] this thread. Sad.
[16:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zanothis [3445] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SPACEX ISS Docking Simulator Easter Egg - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:22] <exec> 08└─In the settings, you can switch the Earth from "Oblate Spheroid" to "Flat".
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[17:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:54] <exec> 08└─Isn't it hard to claim that the wooden towers with a big propeller at the top of it is your brainchild? Doesn't Windmills so to speak have prior art in the case by about a thousand years or so give or take depending on which form of windmill type we are talking about. Also for that to be carbon neut...
[17:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:55] <exec> 08└─Is there anywhere a full lifetime carbon footprint? E.g. maintenance cost, decommissioning/upgrade cost, etc etc. How does it compare with steel when all this is accounted, as well as initial build.
[17:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:57] <exec> 08└─You are so lucky! When I was a kid, the local wildlife woke us up. If you didn't wake up fast enough, you ended up in some smilodon's belly! We generated power using hamster wheels made of reeds and chewed bark though we didn't have any use for it back then, it just something to keep the hamsters oc...
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─Statistically you're mocking yourself more than anyone else.
[17:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─Change is very rarely gradual. As other posters said, the ability could have always been there, and simply wasn't used, perhaps was activated through some epigenetic trigger, and now has spread. Or could also be a random mutation, either way it provides a tremendous advantage and would definitely be...
[17:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. Here, have a glass of cool, refreshing all-natural cyanide while we talk.
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─I imagine you're similarly annoyed by Boeing's "Starliner" - which not only is *also*, not going to the stars, but is a few orders of magnitude too small to be called any kind of "-liner"? Not to mention more terrestrial examples such as the Chevy Nova, which for all it's problems never once resulte...
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─I agree that what you say is pretty clear. Also clear is that you don't want to keep changing a booster and capsule that is being used for human flight. At least, any changes, must be carefully controlled and conservative. And, of course, blow up and later prove the reliability of radical new change...
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─I wish SpaceX had chosen a better name that conveys meaning like that. Starship does not even sound original, let alone sounding misused or boastful.
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─Last I heard it was due to a fail to re-seal properly while testing the quick-connect umbilical - something that will be absolutely essential for orbital refueling (which is what will allow Starship to reach the Moon, Mars, etc), but isn't directly related to flight-worthiness. The engine ("Raptor")...
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Well, if you want to get technical it *is* intended to go to the stars: "planet" is derived from the Greek term meaning "wandering star" And metaphorically it is intended to take us to the stars - having outposts on other planets is what will push us to develop the technology needed to get beyond ou...
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─If you invite McDuckes into space; I'll slap you in the name of all humanity!
[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─Yes it is long and wordy but Everyday Astronaut covers all details: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─I would hope Elon blesses the plan and sees the practicality of NASA money to help develop Starship. SpaceX was one of 3 designs [nasa.gov] selected for the Lunar lander for Artemis.
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─Tell us what you think of an old dude who's been married twice and launches a sub-orbital ship under the banner of "Virgin Galactic". I'll pop the popcorn.
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─Explosion definitely not from dialing to 120%. I watched it live. The test pad was overcome with methane. Spark lit the methane. A big boom and a large fireball followed. It even snuffed out the flare down range from the shock-wave. While not from dialing to 120%, it was still a learning experie...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 1808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─I think one of the things that really liberates SpaceX to innovate is that they don't have to care at all what "the public" thinks - unlike NASA which is firmly under the thumb of politicians whose entire career is based on manipulating public perceptions. The public is not their customers, and the...
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─Because if it makes you feel good it must be bad.
[17:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:49] <exec> 08└─When I watch Goldfinger I have sweet thoughts about Honor Blackman.
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─The donation was years before, and why should anyone fucking care? He's a developer, not a social "scientist."
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:26] <exec> 08└─In December of 2018 British YouTube content creator Tom Scott stated that he does not receive any donations in collected on his behalf by Brave browser. In a tweet, he stated "So if you thought you'd donated to me through Brave, the money (or their pseudo-money [BAT]) will not reach me, and Brave's...
[17:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─netflix is disgusting and anyone who funds them is a fucking idiotic whore. "Pirating" (aka sharing) is by far the more moral option.
[17:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:58] <exec> 08└─Right wingers are famously incapable of analyzing art or understanding subtext. They thought the Colbert Report was serious. They thought Fight Club was pro-toxic masculinity. They think Bioshock is a video game about how cool libertarianism is. They think Fortunate Son is patriotic. Paul Ryan's fav...
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SPACEX ISS Docking Simulator Easter Egg - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─It looks as if backfaces are being culled without considering the viewpoint.
[17:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Psychedelic Drug Psilocybin Works on Brain - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:52] <exec> 08└─Just to remind everyone that ritual flag burning is the proper way to dispose of a soiled or damaged USA flag.
[17:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Psychedelic Drug Psilocybin Works on Brain - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:54] <exec> 08└─I find myself wondering whether claustrum activity or inactivity is related to attention deficit.
[17:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:33] <exec> 08└─And 100+ BLM protestors right next to each other won't spread COVID?
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[18:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:56] <exec> 08└─At EOL... A couple gallons of kerosene and a match completes the carbon cycle. Much more economic than recycling metal.
[18:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:57] <exec> 08└─The German model it is based on seems to be a conventional power head on top of a wooden tower. The blades are normally a composite material because steel isn't strong and light enough. I can't see wooden blades surviving their first wind storm, let alone lasting for 20 years. Treated wood isn't as...
[18:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:59] <exec> 08└─Finally somebody other than Michael Moore has done a couple calculations on the actual energy footprint of alternative sources, ending up with green as in tree units. Also, as people living in well built wooden houses know, wood is amazing.
[18:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:01] <exec> 08└─Not to spoil the combo but nowadays it is, I was never a kid cos they snuffed me out earlier, and I did not like it much actually.
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─Not only knocked out of orbit, but with sufficient force to send them to alien worlds (other stars) and through a "black sun" (presumably black hole maybe?). Costumes: very good Props: excellent Sets: excellent, downgraded in 2nd season Interesting theme music Stories: not so great, but have no fear...
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─A mere ten trillion years to prepare? We'll squander it. Just watch. Revisit this SN post when it is too late. Meanwhile, our sun will become a red gnat or ant or something well before that. That will take us by surprise while we continue preparations for the collision with Titan. I'll be back to th...
[18:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:41] <exec> 08└─I think they should stick to only Free Range monarch butterflies.
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─How would you expect the president to obtain his standard order: 2 x Big Mac 2 x Filet O'Fish (yuk! and double yuk!) Shake
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─I hope so too. But alas the world is screwed up. I expect SLS will have to win. Because. The senator from Alabama.
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─NASA money is useful to SpaceX. So SpaceX should give some consideration to "the politics" of what they say, and what kind of message it sends. I'm not trying to be too critical. Just that maybe they could have said it a bit better. What I hope ultimately: that SpaceX eventually no longer needs NASA...
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─The thing about Virgin Galactic (Founded 2004) and Blue Origin (Founded 2000) is that neither of their founders seem quite as serious as Elon Musk and his SpaceX (founded 2002). [from Wikipedia] SpaceX employs 8,000 (as of Nov 2019). Blue Origin employs 2,500 (as of 2019). Virgin Galactic employs 72...
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing how you could really improve on "Starship is our highest priority, other than Crew Dragon safety". And it's not like NASA has a lot of options - they can go back to paying a lot more for passage on Russian rockets, or continue waiting to pay ridiculously more for the badly over budget...
[18:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:53] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they just chose the most common serious swear word, and yes for English though due to Hollywood that probably extends to other countries. They do mention that swearing is what does the trick, not JUST "fuck" so take it down a notch sasquatch!
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:54] <exec> 08└─Calling the Bibical mythological mother of mankind a whore is racist, bigoted, and justified? No wonder you've got problems, one of the rare occasions where Freud could really shine!
[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:56] <exec> 08└─I don't judge, she could have leaned that way to. It's just a bit weird now that she is dead and all. But I don't judge ...
[18:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:03] <exec> 08└─Anytime I consider a Netflix competitor, I see similar pricing for dramatically inferior product selection... They haven't pissed me off much, lately, so I'm not really looking to change, but if I were, I'd consider any competition I've evaluated to be a major step down in value for money.
[18:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Admits Blocking VPN Users in Australia Opening Legal Can of Worms - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─Netflix is essentially obligated to block VPNS because some of the licensors of some of the shows that they carry refuse to grant them a worldwide streaming license and want to impose restrictions to a limited geographical region for whatever asinine reason. If Netflix did not make an effort to bloc...
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[19:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:46] <exec> 08└─Is this due to realizing that facial recognition is not practical, wrapped in convenient virtue signaling? I find it odd that a major government contractor would just take out part of their portfolio for a few current-event brownie points, unless the technology has no possibility of working in the n...
[19:21:47] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 621 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:48] <exec> 08└─Possible translations: They have come up with something better than facial recognition. (be scared) They have realized (like many have) that this is exploitable and never 100% reliable, despite what managers may think. They are afraid of lawsuits if their systems identify certain groups of people as...
[19:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe it costs too much to develop? And maybe IBM doesn't want to admit that? Maybe IBM is behind in developing this? Maybe mainframes, despite a few unique advantages, aren't cost effective for the task. Maybe facial recognition is too far away from IBM's actual business? IBM's hardware can still r...
[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:52] <exec> 08└─IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:54] <exec> 08└─I wonder if people thought transistors were hype when they first started taking off. Morons in every era.
[19:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:56] <exec> 08└─IBM found a way to fire people and look good at the same time. How could they possibly pass this opportunity up?
[19:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:58] <exec> 08└─At IBM: "Our expectations for you were low, but holy fuckin' shit, man..."
[19:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:01] <exec> 08└─International Business Machines (Gone Flexible [soylentnews.org]) They should rename to International Business Services.
[19:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:03] <exec> 08└─It's one things to see commies raising mobs, gates forcing worldwide vaccines marked 666, worldwide pollution, 2000 year religions being chaffeurs of a new world order and the ever looming nuclear threats, but, when IBM behaves like the good guy, you JUST KNOW the apocalypse is near.
[19:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe IBM is behind in developing this?
[19:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:07] <exec> 08└─Probably just removing the thing from public view, put under a gag order? Anything is plausible with all the secrecy
[19:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:23] <exec> 08└─Windmills so to speak have prior art in the case by about a thousand years or so
[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:24] <exec> 08└─Usually wind turbines don't grow alone. They usually grow in large batches. A "wind farm". (a farm that produces wind?) Now imagine your proposed solution to completing the carbon cycle, in a large forest of wind turbines, when one arsonist sets a single tower on far.
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─Doesn't Windmills so to speak have prior art in the case by about a thousand years
[19:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─I've grown up in American wooden houses. Sometimes with some brick walls. In Europe they build with stone. I suppose because it grows more plentiful than wood. So a building might last a thousand years or more. Which becomes a problem once it becomes time to install indoor plumbing. Then later elect...
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─I prefer wood to stone to bricks to concrete, personally. People who build wood houses here though, mostly people of Austrian and German descent, refer to north american style wooden houses as economy class buildings. Given the amount of planks I see in their roofs I can understand why. I think the...
[19:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:41] <exec> 08└─I seriously doubt that the arguably indelicate wording of a "public" announcement that will only be read by space enthusiasts is going to give anyone any ammunition worth caring about.
[19:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-moon-starship-step-towards-mars/ [teslarati.com] https://www.inverse.com [inverse.com] SpaceX seems willing to make a variant for each use case. Cargo (uncrewed), fuel tanker, Mars (crewed), and now Moo...
[19:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:23] <exec> 08└─But is it left justified or right justified?
[19:24:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:44] <exec> 08└─“Sorry for this mistake — we are clearly not perfect, but we correct course quickly. We will never revise typed in domains again, I promise.”
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[20:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:02] <exec> 08└─Possibly a combination of several of them. They probably want to cut fields of business that are somehow controversial at the current time -- just see all the little drones at Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc rising up over various contract etc. So they are proactive here and just cut that line of bu...
[20:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:03] <exec> 08└─They probably want to cut fields of business that are somehow controversial at the current time -- just see all the little drones at Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc rising up over various contract etc.
[20:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:06] <exec> 08└─Or they were compelled by a government agency to do something with it that was an egregious violation of human rights and their only way out was to simply say "we don't sell or develop that so we can't help you."
[20:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:08] <exec> 08└─I'm sure woke-culture has reached Poughkeepsie by this time, or is about to -- nobody seems to be immune. While they used to be the suit and tie place I figure they have changed to. Don't recall many corporations being as sensitive as they are these days.
[20:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:10] <exec> 08└─Seeing how one of their early gigs was keeping track of all the Final Solution inventory through tatooed serial numbers to use on International Business Machines, one could see how they would be leery about recent return of fascism in the United States. Palantir is still on track [thedailybeast.com...
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:30] <exec> 08└─So you were rebooted?
[20:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─I never really appreciated my American wooden house until I lived in earthquake country. I wouldn't want to live in something that might become a rock pile. OTOH, I've heard that wood-reinforced masonry is the best of both worlds. You get a durable, insulated surface on the outside and a flexible fr...
[20:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:34] <exec> 08└─when one arsonist sets a single tower on far.
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't say how the wood laminate material is protected from fire, termites and wood rot. Of course all materials have mitigations. Steel rusts, etc.
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jurov [6250] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:38] <exec> 08└─There is densified wood that is structurally strong like steel, it is made by similar way as paper (to increase content of cellulose) and should be similarly recyclable.
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:54] <exec> 08└─Sadly the version I saw was dubbed in German, in my own country it would have just been subtitled but none of our 3 channels at the time carried it. We had to watch several American television shows and movies in German, all of them had the same voice actors. Imagine Bonanza sounding really weird wi...
[20:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─NASA may use Crew Dragon for a long time. It's based on proven technology, has an abort system that can bypass the upper stage, and can do splashdowns. https://everydayastronaut.com [everydayastronaut.com]
[20:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─They should perhaps have called it one-sided bacon strip? I wonder how you'd cut a Mobius bacon strip out of a pork belly.
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe, assuming it continues to be worthwhile to SpaceX to support and operate an obsolete rocket for a single customer.
[20:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:39] <exec> 08└─The Dutch use diseases, and god damn. But they aspirate the consonants in swear words, even though the rest of the whole language is unaspirated. I once had a Dutch girl complain to me that it was so tiring learning English because of all the aspirated consonants.
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[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─I'll start with the site's codebase! *slaps soylentnews.org* This bad boy is made of pure UTF-8 compatible spaghetti with a bit of IPv6 flavoring. (Taco started development in 1998)
[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─Mitsubishi. TBF though, it's not totally working. A couple years ago I was cleaning out some stuff and found some cassette tapes. I tried to play one, and it promptly began to "eat" the tape. Fortunately I remembered the old trick of putting a Bic pen in the sprocket to re-wind it. The AM/FM radio s...
[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─Dell d610 laptop from 2005. Use it every day with linux mint and extra memory because it has a 4:3 and high res screen. I hate laptops with squishy 16:9 screens meant for movies but that's all you can get nowadays..
[21:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:53] <exec> 08└─Does my 1902 Edison Phonograph model B count?
[21:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:55] <exec> 08└─Still works like a charm. You don't see any tigers, do you?
[21:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:57] <exec> 08└─Oops meant 5:4 screen. Modern laptops no longer have these..
[21:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:59] <exec> 08└─Nah, we have a handy buzzard that drives them off.
[21:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:01] <exec> 08└─Does my 1930's lathe count? How about the 36" kick shear stamped 1903--previous owner had set for zero clearance and it still cuts paper...and also 0.062" aluminum sheet (1.5mm).
[21:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:03] <exec> 08└─I have a rock I use to crush garlic, hammer in nails, and other tasks. It still works great. My kids laugh at me and ask when I'm gonna upgrade to an iHammer, but I say who needs rounded corners.
[21:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:06] <exec> 08└─Typewriter
[21:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:08] <exec> 08└─As long as we don't have to look at images of them [gotfuturama.com]. Although, that's probably more of a modern-day concern.
[21:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:10] <exec> 08└─I have a plane that my Grandfather bought before the most recent unpleasantness we had with the Germans. My Mother thinks he would have bought it about 1934 or so. It still works fine.
[21:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:12] <exec> 08└─A pair of Sansui SP-2000 loudspeakers, circa 1968. Still has the original crossover and drivers. The only issue they ever had was with the tinsel wire on the woofers, which I replaced. They still work great.
[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─The company that worked with actual Nazis? Puuuuuuuuuuuleaze.
[21:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there will be some hard core white supremacists that will never wrap their heads around the concept of equality and respect. Not sure why it is such a contentious issue, but then again the US has plenty of literal Nazis and hard core racists still angry about losing their slaves :|
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─They're just embarassed about last time they helped the fascists and they can see the Trumping on the Wall. Hmph, well, on the parts of the wall that actually got built that is.
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's them losing in the marketplace and dumping an unprofitable product group wrapped up in purity signaling in a sad attempt to buy some good PR.
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─Depending on how they prevented it from rotting, you might not have to burn it: Standing deadwood is a perfect habitat for lots of insects, fungus, microbes, and a bunch of other critters. Or if you have to take it apart for some reason, you can also leave it on the ground. This kind of thing happen...
[21:24:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 1808 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:14] <exec> 08└─I think one of the things that really liberates SpaceX to innovate is that they don't have to care at all what "the public" thinks - unlike NASA which is firmly under the thumb of politicians whose entire career is based on manipulating public perceptions. The public is not their customers, and the...
[21:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:25] <exec> 08└─They announced Dragon XL pretty recently, intended for Artemis. I think SpaceX will continue churning out Falcon and Merlin for another 10 years or more if NASA wants it. Although they should obviously try to transition away from it. Another interesting bit is that NASA has apparently approved of us...
[21:24:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03claywar [3069] 02 - 06The F-Word’s Hidden Superpower: Repeating It Can Increase Your Pain Threshold - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I believe you misspelled 'systemd.' That really gets my emotional processing going.
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[22:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:00] <exec> 08└─This motherboard is 12 years old (the case and keyboard are older). I have a whole room full of computer stuff from the '80s, '90s, and '00s. Plenty of 8/16/32-bit video games. Oldest item is probably the Atari C-380 pinball game. There's a (huge) Magnavox record player which is probably 50 years ol...
[22:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:02] <exec> 08└─Limiting this to electric-powered gizmos. I was a freshman in college, who had just finished Christmas shopping right after finals and decided to spring for something for myself before I caught the bus back home. I bought myself a Krups coffee grinder at a local Sear's. I finished college, moved hom...
[22:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:04] <exec> 08└─Atari 2600 console, games, controllers were all packed away over 35 years ago in working order. I also still have a Jornada 820 (WinCE) that only works on AC power, a VHS full size camcorder with a dead battery, and an original owner 92 Toyota 4cyl 5 speed pickup with 68k miles still on the road. I'...
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[22:22:06] <exec> 08└─Does it have emojis?
[22:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:08] <exec> 08└─Speaking of records. I used to toss my parents 78RPM records like Frisbees. I'm pretty sure I trashed a few thousand dollars worth.
[22:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:10] <exec> 08└─I got a hand-me-down Volt-Ohm meter from a GTE technician, I received it 30 years ago and I'd guess it saw about 30 years of active duty. The probe wire insulation has seen better days, but it still works as well as it ever did (mirror backed needle gauge). The remarkable thing is that the Ohm meter...
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[22:22:12] <exec> 08└─Stuka?
[22:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:15] <exec> 08└─Not the *actual* one, but I have the same model Kenwood mixer as depicted in TFA, given to me by my parents when my cheap handheld died. They originally got it as a wedding present and it will have seen 53 years of faithful service next month (most recently for a carrot and walnut cake). Between us,...
[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─but I have a ca. 1920s Vibroplex bug [vibroplex.com] in my shack that gets used every day and is still going strong.
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:19] <exec> 08└─Of course it does. ;-) ^_^ 8^D :~( :-/
[22:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crm114 [8238] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:21] <exec> 08└─Second that. We have a Mulinex (they bought Krups in 1991, according to Wikipedia) "Coffee and Spice Mill" that has been used every morning since the mid 80's This year it gave out. Brief inspection revealed that 35+ years of wrapping the electrical cord around the thing... broke the electrical cord...
[22:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:23] <exec> 08└─Boom box from 1980, works like a champ. Ipod from 2009, doesn't work. Rebuilt fluorescent lamp from 1950, works like a champ. "Tower" lamp you see in every college dorm room broken for various reasons in one season. Shovel from 1942 works like it always did. I tried to sharpen the new shovel I go...
[22:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─Awesome! I bought the grinder in 1983, so around the same time.
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─It cost $89, and was from JC Penny. Two buttons, one for time/date, and a hidden button to set the watch, using a ball point pen tip or bent paper clip. Press button once, get hours and minutes. If you keep holding the button without releasing it, then you get the seconds counting for as long as you...
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─I've mentioned my ~1990 unisonic desk phone and my good old plain old telephone service before. When someone calls me on a real phone I can actually HEAR what they are saying and they can hear me. Hell, I had to talk to some asshole on his stupid flamboyant consumertardasitc cell phone the other day...
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─Simpson? They are legendary.
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─the little bro of the D50, a bit more noisy, still in use as MIDI input. It has a buffer battery for the settings, but the manual doesn't say it's rechargeable. Well, I never had to replace it, since the day I bought it in 1989. In the family we have quite older electronics but this never expiring b...
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[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I started noticing this from the 386/486/Pentium era. It seemed "it would fail in 30 days, or survive" Then, "It would fail in 2 years, or survive" The stuff that survived 2 years still works, 20+ years later. Stuff after that? 2 years. Still have a pentium laptop with a dead battery that fire...
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─They most certainly are. Have a couple of them older than I am that work peachy keen.
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:41] <exec> 08└─I have earlier model, in fact the earliest model I think. Inherited from grandparents 20 odd years ago. Not in regular use, and if I'm honest when it is used it has a vague whiff of the magic smoke about it, signifying to me that the motor windings are on the way out (which is why it ain't used much...
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[22:22:43] <exec> 08└─> they absolutely have to TEXT me, which exclusively requires - a b[r]and new smart phone! If you are willing to be consumed by the borg, Google Voice works fine for sending/receiving text messages. I keep it open in a Firefox tab on my laptop, next to Gmail (yes, I've been assimilated). Google even...
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─Well POTS is still the best remote communication method, lags with the speed of light. I've begun to talk over people in whatsapp calls, as the lag is so pronounced my intervention will sound at the right place. Unfortunately plain calls are now mostly routed through VOIP themselves.
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[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─Tandy Model 100 computer which still works great and is used regularly. (I get about a month's use on four AA batteries.) , an Apple iPod from 2006. I've replace the battery twice and still going strong. Also, a Western Electric series 500 rotary phone still on my desk.
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:49] <exec> 08└─I don't have an astrolabe, but this guy ClickSpring has an Antikythera Mechanism, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Fascinating video series on building a replica of the original, using contemporary (ancient design) tools for many operations. The coolest part is the pin...
[22:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:52] <exec> 08└─But that's a rather personal question, isn't it?
[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─While agreeing with the general sentiment, texting does not require a smart phone, let alone a new one, I have ancient Nokia 3310s (and older larger Nokia bricks) somewhere that still work and still text, given a SIM. In fact, for receiving texts a landline will do (depending where you are, but spea...
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 1746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─A fair amount of computers from the 80's and 90's -- a few C64:s, a couple of Mac SE and Classics, a few SUN lunchboxes (I use one of them as a stand to prop up the monitor I'm using as I type this) and an Amiga4000/060. Most of them still work or has been repaired, the A4000 is the exception -- I j...
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:23] <exec> 08└─What does woke-culture have to do with facial recognition software?
[22:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─but, when IBM behaves like the good guy, you JUST KNOW the apocalypse is near.
[22:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:27] <exec> 08└─Did you just say "actual" Nazis? There are actual literal White Supremacist Nazi Fascists in every board room in America. Every looter is a alt-right Nazi. Every cop is a Nazi bastard. All wypipo are Nazis and should be exterminated.
[22:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:29] <exec> 08└─Companies are just virtue signaling in hopes they won't be lined up when this thing goes full speed.
[22:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:56] <exec> 08└─It's mostly survival bias: Because stone buildings last centuries, anyone who decided to build a stone buildings in your area any time over the last millennium created something that still stands, while any wooden or wattle-and-daub buildings (both of which were far more common, say, 500 years ago)...
[22:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─Add to list: Jihadis with matchbooks
[22:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:59] <exec> 08└─Between the ancient grain-mill & water-pumping windmills, 1896 to be exact, there was a brief moment of high style and advanced structural design in water pumpers- https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The Romeo and Juliet windmill by Frank Lloyd Wright uses wood pa...
[22:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:02] <exec> 08└─If you really need it gone, just bury it. I doubt anything will be left after 10 years buried shallowly.
[22:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Titan Drifts Away from Saturn by About 11 Centimeters Per Year - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─According to her Wikipedia entry, she won awards for her acting in Mission Impossible for what that's worth. Also her real name is Mildred Fogel. I agree with your review entirely. I was super excited as a 11 year old (maybe) when the promos for Space:1999 started playing on TV, but it was about h...
[22:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:44] <exec> 08└─The milkweed genome has no incentive (from the last few million years of evolution) to make itself food for monarch caterpillars.
[22:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder how you'd cut a Mobius bacon strip out of a pork belly.
[22:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Psychedelic Drug Psilocybin Works on Brain - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:12] <exec> 08└─Well, acid is less likely but it can happen. I've known deadheads who - well I guess pot was mixed in, but I don't know stoners with the degree of change that the deadheads exhibit. They're great, I love 'em, but they're super fried from years of heavy heavy acid use. LSD can precipitate existing vu...
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[23:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:53] <exec> 08└─They got away with their "unlimited" false advertising for so long, now they sell special accounts once again billed as unlimited and they still wanna complain? Cox, what an appropriate name. Anyone know any clumsy Rabbis?
[23:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:55] <exec> 08└─Criminals tend to live together in gangs congregating in "hoods". So if you have one criminal downloading copyrighted content, his neighbor is likely downloading child pornography and another neighbor is listening to hip-hop music. As Teddy Roosevelt famously said: " Kill them all and God will recog...
[23:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:57] <exec> 08└─Cox, Ucker, & Sons in Law
[23:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cox Slows Internet Speeds in Entire Neighborhoods to Punish Any Heavy Users - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:59] <exec> 08└─Cox tells the rest of the neighborhood why the internet is so slow, along with a name and address.
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─Some pewter teaspoons with decorative sculpture at the end of the handle. They still stir tea like champions.
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─From 2002-2003. Still working fine.
[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:50] <exec> 08└─I forgot about my speakers! Klipsch Cornwalls, the original. Weigh a ton, most visitors think they are some other type of furniture. Powered by 1978 Sony receiver. Still sound amazing and can put out some serious power, capacitors about the size of a fist.
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─In that case please don't respond...
[23:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:54] <exec> 08└─My Acer C310 is also from 2005. Because it is a tablet PC I've kept it; I don't regularly use it but if I want a Wacom interface it still works. The replacement laptop is also still in service, a 2010 Lenovo SL410 is sitting next to me serving my website. Considering 2005 is when I graduated from Hi...
[23:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:57] <exec> 08└─Oldest working gizmo is 33 years old. It took me a few years to figure out what it really is for.
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─I have a clock radio I bought in the early 80s, I've bought several to replace it but none were as good (too bright display, too hard to program, etc). I used to have a revolver from probably the 40's I got from an uncle who was a motorcycle cop in central California, and retired in the 80s. When he...
[23:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:01] <exec> 08└─Hi, Except a Remington Model 10 typewriter didn't have any caret keys nor tilde keys. Something about a lawn, Captain Pedantic
[23:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03morpheus [1989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos? - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:03] <exec> 08└─1980 Hameg 25MHz scope and a 100 KHz(!) scope from 1957, 1965 Tektronix 150MHz wave generator (still works great). a Celeron PC from 2003 (running 2010 Ubuntu, just lazy to upgrade), Sun Microcomputer box from 1998 (running Slackware). 1978 Super Decathlon---still good for Immelmans and going for th...
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─>They're just embarassed about last time they helped the fascists Not a smart move from the nazis, using the enemy to count your crimes against humanity, was it? Not to mention the energy expenditure of burning corpses (they had a lil world war with russia and the allies, nothing to worry about, so...
[23:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:36] <exec> 08└─Must be the Embrace part.
[23:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:38] <exec> 08└─IBM is addicted to IP. They have lease the world in patents filed for and patents granted every year for decades. If they were really serious about being anti-facial recognition, they’d pledge to to license any of their considerable patent portfolio to anyone doing facial recognition I have zero d...
[23:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:40] <exec> 08└─Flamebait huh? Reality gotcha triggered bruh? Need to share Ben Shapiro's safe space bruheimer? Wasn't even a personal attack on who I replied to, but I guess some people just HATE reality being pointed out. Citation: the last week plus all the rest of US history.
[23:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:42] <exec> 08└─Your nanny sure hated you to drop you on the head so many times.
[23:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:44] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, MS may be evil but at least their embrace isn't as bad as the priests.
[23:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sweden Welcomes its First Wooden Wind Turbine Tower - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:16] <exec> 08└─In our day, when we killed joy, we'd run it down, then brutally club it, returning to the tribe in a few days with the corpse dangling from our clenched teeth.
[23:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milkweed, Only Food Source for Monarch Caterpillars, Ubiquitously Contaminated - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:58] <exec> 08└─Point taken, and in years gone by when there were still billions of monarchs it probably did benefit the milkweed. These days, milkweed probably gets more pollination from (slowly dying) commercial honey bees and other insects than it does monarchs.
[23:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:39] <exec> 08└─Perhaps so - though it's worth pointing out that Artemis is a near-term project. While Starship is still almost completely unproven technology that is vanishingly unlikely to be passenger-certified on a relevant timetable. You might be right about another 10 years of Falcon support, but I rather dou...
[23:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:41] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that the second that Starship proves itself, Falcon 9 not only becomes completely irrelevant to Musk's goal of colonizing Mars, but actually a hindrance, since keeping them in operation means continuing to operate production, refurbishment, and launch facilities that no longer contribut...
[23:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Shifts Focus to Starship Following Crew Dragon Success - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:43] <exec> 08└─Not, that'd never work - ULA would never be able to get away with charging ridiculous cost+ contracts, so what would be their motive? :-D
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