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[00:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:06] <exec> 08└─These same journals said vaccination is safe. Can we trust them? Better safe than sorry... I'm going to continue to raise my children organically.
[00:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:07] <exec> 08└─You should raise them in bubbles [wikipedia.org] with VR helmets attached at all times for virtual life experiences.
[00:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:09] <exec> 08└─I remember when Trump says it sounds like a certain drug could save many lives, and the media immediately call it fake just to be contrarians. This lead to papers being invented just to confirm a political bias. Is scoring points for your team worth more than people's lives now? I also recall the me...
[00:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:12] <exec> 08└─If you would simply dedicate a few moments of your time to discovering where in the world HCQ has been used over the last decade or so, which, just to give you a hint, is easily done by obtaining a map of the world's malaria zones, then, pick a country, any country, and drill down on the regions wit...
[00:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:13] <exec> 08└─Russia's not going to fight a war with China either. They couldn't even if they wanted to.
[00:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:14] <exec> 08└─Their version of black citizens would be Uighurs. They are using genocidal tactics against them, and they are the beta test for an AI/facial recognition automated surveillance state. China is reportedly sending men to sleep in the same beds as Uighur Muslim women while their husbands are in prison c...
[00:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─So when Florida died that analyst for not changing the numbers, they weren't trying to deliberately underreport?
[00:26:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Google Resumes its Senseless Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85 - 543 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:02] <exec> 08└─The two biggest problems with AMP 1) Technology leads content and you go to https://amp.dev [amp.dev] and ALL the examples of AMP are the shittiest clickbait crap we've all come to despise. Its literally being promoted as a technology to shovel crap. 2) Pre-rendering downloading makes pages appear...
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[00:26:25] <exec> 08└─Much of the AMP content is actually hosted by Google. The vendor lock-in, increased tracking telemetry, and captive users can easily offset the extra bandwidth by Google.
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[01:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:01] <exec> 08└─The retracted paper in The Lancet should have raised immediate concerns, he added. It purported to rely on detailed medical records from 96,000 patients with Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, at nearly 700 hospitals on six continents. It was an enormous international registry, yet sci...
[01:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:03] <exec> 08└─It sounds like the global conspiracy of scientists that promoted global warming.
[01:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:05] <exec> 08└─Shhhh! I've been on full paid vacation for 4 months, don't tell them it's safe to come out until I've finished all the booze.
[01:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:07] <exec> 08└─If you add up the ages of all the people appearing in the Bible = 6000 years. Go and check it yourself! Why are you putting me in a straight jacket?
[01:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:09] <exec> 08└─The journals are not victims of the pandemic, but scientists' political agenda. There will be more blood.
[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:11] <exec> 08└─... I'm going to continue to raise my children organically.
[01:22:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 772 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2019/10/19/the-super-fast-ssds-in-the-next-gen-game-consoles-may-turn-out-to-be-a-mixed-blessing/ [forbes.com] Those richer images are going to involve storing more data and SSDs provide benefits here as well. When data is read from the hard drives used in t...
[01:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:16] <exec> 08└─...This was reported by an Australian news service...
[01:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:17] <exec> 08└─...But thinking the China gov has your best interests in mind is silly...
[01:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:20] <exec> 08└─Natural genetic sequences can't get copyright protection. There is no "author" to extend it to, unless you are one of those SARS-CoV-2 was made in a lab types.
[01:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:22] <exec> 08└─...But thinking the China gov has your best interests in mind is silly...
[01:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:24] <exec> 08└─Sorry, some of your favorite tyrants lied. Better luck next time.
[01:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Paid for a Tails Zero-Day Exploit to Help the FBI Catch a Predator - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:18] <exec> 08└─Doesn't Tails run apps under AppArmor and Firejail sandboxes? A compromised browser or video player should not be able to discover the real networking information of the physical machine, or make direct outbound connections. They must have additionally used kernel-level exploits to break out of the...
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[02:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:59] <exec> 08└─Flying military vehicles filled with plutonium. That sounds delightful!
[02:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:01] <exec> 08└─"Flying military vehicles filled with plutonium. That sounds delightful!" We already have them. They're called B-52, B-2 and B-1 strategic bombers. A number of other countries have similar ones too.
[02:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, but plutonium piles operating in cislunar space, virtually untouchable, and available to crash and boom anywhere on Earth from a difficult to detect or intercept approach vector.
[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:20] <exec> 08└─That A/C might be our resident anti-vaxxer. He's also a flat earther so your reasoned arguments are falling on barren ground.
[02:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness we can continue to trust and rely upon the inimitable SoylentNews Eds, especially when it comes to understanding expertise, peer-review, and other sciency things. And keeping those nasty, nasty aristarchus submissions far, far away.
[02:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─oooh the scientist's political agenda... do tell us more! those bastards, I knew those nerds were up to something
[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:26] <exec> 08└─I remember when Trump says "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!" and then “It’s one person coming in from China...
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:28] <exec> 08└─Once again, correlation is not causation. The maps I just looked at show that covid is just taking a little more time to get to the poorer parts of the world, possibly because there isn't so much international travel to those places where poverty and malaria are common. Give it another few weeks (ju...
[02:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:44] <exec> 08└─Storing the same data 400 times and calling that an optimization? Yeah, right. They say there was 10GB of duped data, so this mysterious file that was duped 400 times would be .025 GB... AT MOST. It would take significantly longer to transfer that data from the device than it would for any seek. So...
[02:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:46] <exec> 08└─They say there was 10GB of duped data, so this mysterious file that was duped 400 times would be .025 GB... AT MOST.
[02:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry, yours maybe, not mine
[02:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:41] <exec> 08└─Both this and your following addition to this comment, are spot on. What most people fail to realize, is that gov't.'s always have its own interests ahead of the populace. Maintain the power structure, and the 'bread and circus' routine applied, and thus maintain the status quo and their revenue.
[02:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:43] <exec> 08└─And Europe is becoming a Muslim state! OMG!!! Elect Trump!!
[02:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:46] <exec> 08└─I heard they eat their dogs. Wouldn't that explain it?
[02:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:48] <exec> 08└─Well there were no consequences for Iraq War 2. In fact, that turned out to be a strength.
[02:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:50] <exec> 08└─Why all other news about covid were combined together, but this one got separate treatment? Shall I guess political agenda?
[02:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03claywar [3069] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:52] <exec> 08└─And in local policies, if your protest is noble, the consequences are negated. A most noble-novel-coronavirus we must have. If the IFR of 0.26% is cherry-picked, could you please inform the CDC? We're still using them as a reference, right?
[02:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 2326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:54] <exec> 08└─No, that wife murdered him and used Trump as the excuse. She had a history of abuse against him and gave him a significantly higher dose than she put in her own drink. Last I heard she was being arrested. People are drinking chemical cleaning products because they think it'll sanitize their mouths,...
[02:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:56] <exec> 08└─Compared to another president who would be capable of organizing clasdestine operations behind the scenes to start a war without looking like we started a war? No, Trump would be better. The leaders would yell at each other for a little bit, then to save face he'll distract himself with a different...
[02:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:59] <exec> 08└─As in, it's possible that they reported 1 out of every 10 cases.
[02:24:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NickM [2867] 02 - 062020-06-15 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories - 2125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:38] <exec> 08└─<rant> There are upward trend that correlate with the protest as it started 14 after, yet the various media and experts are carefully avoiding that inconvenient link and are blaming the reopening that started +-28 days ago, if the reopening was the main factor driving the uptick, this would have sta...
[02:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Resumes its Senseless Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:09] <exec> 08└─Only windows uses extensions to decide anything. OSX and other *nix systems use mimetypes.
[02:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volcanic Glass Spray Shows Promise in Controlling Mosquitoes - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:56] <exec> 08└─This looks similar to what Aerogel does? (About 6 minutes in) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Eggs Seem to Exhibit Preferences for Particular People's Sperm, Study Shows - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:36] <exec> 08└─That's not what it said at all. This is about attraction at the genetic level.
[02:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Induce Hibernation-Like State in Non-Hibernating Rodents - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:53] <exec> 08└─The US Constitutional amendment outlawing slavery specifically omits enslaving of jailed people. Hence, the "voluntary" work crews run by many prisons, and the "volunteer" firefighters in California who can't get released for good behavior because they are needed for the state to fight fires for fre...
[02:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Says 'Years' Needed to Clean Up Arctic Spill - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:36] <exec> 08└─It's not the kind of problem you can have with wind or solar, even with large underground battery storage. In that regard, how come tanks that size aren't stored in the ground?
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[03:22:23] <exec> 08└─if those incel dorks have their way, we'd be living comfortably in some kind of eco-socialist paradise with 10 billion people and approaching post-scarcity. just think of how many of those people will be non-white. it's frightening. hold me, i'm scared!
[03:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─LOL! I will heed your wisdom in this matter, and not debate the issue further. I'm reminded of several relevant sayings my grandfather was often remarking on: 1) don' argue with fools and idiots, as it is hard for spectators to tell the difference after a short while 2) don't bother trying to insult...
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─So true: Don't argue with an idiot, he'll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
[03:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─To make your point a little more explicit: If all the assets (geometry, logic, characters, textures, mailboxes, etc) for a game region are duplicated into a single sequential block on disc, so you can load it all in a single pass, then the entire loading process requires only a single seek operation...
[03:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:47] <exec> 08└─Game sizes may shrink somewhat in the upcoming generation.
[03:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:51] <exec> 08└─Everybody lies about their numbers until journalists catch them at it
[03:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:53] <exec> 08└─If we demand accountability from China for their misinformation, surely we must hold right wingers accountable for also spreading misinformation, no?
[03:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I didn't make your shameful defense of China. Such as: Singling out China is political campaign bullshit.
[03:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:57] <exec> 08└─Sigh, typo. Sorry, I didn't make your shameful defense of China. Such as: Singling out China is political campaign bullshit.
[03:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:59] <exec> 08└─They have their own version of 'racial' oppression, not much of it involves African Americans/Africans. (note: see the: Tibetans Uighurs etc.) Your defense is weak, and your point is pointless. Use a better example next time, as this one fails utterly in this context.
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[04:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:09] <exec> 08└─Forget plutonium piles, wait until they resurrect Project Orion, and implement it. Hundreds of nukes on board, able to be jettisoned to intercept any Earth target at will, and able to maneuver at will.(at least within the confines of known physics, try Kerbal Space Program...orbital mechanics rule)...
[04:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah... I can see doing a full power low altitude flyover of a few Asian and Mid-East countries.
[04:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:13] <exec> 08└─We're sorry, that name has been taken. Please choose another rocket engine name.
[04:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:06] <exec> 08└─Damn! You do just like the democrats about Trump... You actually think I'm defending them and saying they don't lie? How dumb can you be? You people really are confused. No, can't be, you're just clowning around, can't take you seriously...
[04:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:07] <exec> 08└─You actually think I'm defending them and saying they don't lie?
[04:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:46] <exec> 08└─I'm honestly more concerned about fall due to ecological disaster than I am about fall due to governmental corruption or hostile takeover
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[05:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:59] <exec> 08└─A 36 digit code is the key to the entire castle? It sits a file any old employee with a login can read? It's happened in 2018 and they only caught it 1 1/2 year later because they did a security audit - read: they didn't investigate when the fraudulent transaction reports began coming in by the thou...
[05:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:37] <exec> 08└─Why do you want to kill your grandma? You need help...soon.
[05:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm aside, you stated the core of the problem I think. Cornered like rats on a sinking ship, lashing out at everything that defies them. "Kahn!!!" The world and reality are progressive, otherwise we would still be wearing fur clothes, drawing on cave walls, and clubbing each other for some reaso...
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[05:24:10] <exec> 08└─You're nuts, but thanks for clarifying
[05:26:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 062020-06-15 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:12] <exec> 08└─I consider Soylentnews more like an antisocial media
[05:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Resumes its Senseless Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:23] <exec> 08└─Its literally being promoted as a technology to shovel crap.
[05:27:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Boxer Cleared of Doping after Sex Explanation Keeps Olympic Dream Alive - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:39] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what the above means but it sounds like you know what you're talking about so I'll give you a +1 Informative on it.
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[06:22:00] <exec> 08└─South Africa, Hell! all of Africa! All the banks are corrupt, just another gangsta's paradise... need the cobalt, you know
[06:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:40] <exec> 08└─Not just did they call it fake, they hyped up their own untested contender Remdesvir. Just to spite Trump. Which apparently crashed pretty hard, while hydroxychloroquine remains being prescribed off-label. Back when we were being ejected from our lives, one of my colleagues mentioned that now is the...
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[06:22:41] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of hubris born from watching too many years of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and John Oliver. Progressive worldviews are being pushed to the point of absurdity. The pendulum will swing back, hard.
[06:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:02] <exec> 08└─Storing the same data 400 times and calling that an optimization? Yeah, right
[06:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Motors Opening Reservations for Badger Electric Pickup Truck on June 27 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:44] <exec> 08└─ja ja...I'm really surprised that no one caught this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Everyone loses 10 points on this part of the exam.
[06:26:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Google Resumes its Senseless Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85 - 725 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:53] <exec> 08└─I was thinking about this to. I can't really imagine why they want to do it. This whole excuse about security by hiding information just doesn't really make much sense. The only thing I could really on short notice come up with is that this has to do about ads and clicks. They want people to go thru...
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[07:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Researchers Boost Efficiency of Satellite-Based Quantum Cryptography - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:56] <exec> 08└─From one ground station to the satellite and back down to the other ground station. It's just that the fucking Chinese government monitors anything that comes in or goes out of the two ground stations. Other than that, it's a giant leap forward for secure communication.
[07:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:05] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the launch codes for the United States' nuclear arsenal was 00000000 for a long time.
[07:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─The world and reality are progressive, otherwise we would still be wearing fur clothes, drawing on cave walls, and clubbing each other for some reason, or another.
[07:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:48] <exec> 08└─For those of us that remember the 80s, it was just as bad when the rightists controlled the public debate.
[07:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:50] <exec> 08└─This is the back, but the neo-conservatives, with the help of the alt-right, have broken the pendulum. This will be no "Back", there is no "Back". There is only death to conservatives, who have split the world, and now the chickens, and the antifa, have come home to roost. Hope your bug-out bag is i...
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[07:23:11] <exec> 08└─This redundant storage can be extreme.
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[08:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Researchers Boost Efficiency of Satellite-Based Quantum Cryptography - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:00] <exec> 08└─0.12bps... such bandwidth is good enough for transfer of conventional encryption keys. You can change a 16k key less than every 40 hours or so with that.
[08:24:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 875 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:02] <exec> 08└─Their version of black citizens would be Uighurs. They are using genocidal tactics against them, and they are the beta test for an AI/facial recognition automated surveillance state. China is reportedly sending men to sleep in the same beds as Uighur Muslim women while their husbands are in prison c...
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[09:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:59] <exec> 08└─They may be communicating, but not with us.
[09:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:00] <exec> 08└─At one extreme is the Weak Astrobiological Copernican scenario—such that a planet forms intelligent life sometime after 5 Gyr, but not earlier. The other is the Strong Astrobiological Copernican scenario in which life must form between 4.5 and 5.5 Gyr, as on Earth.
[09:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:18] <exec> 08└─Sadly appropriate 99.96% of the time: https://youtu.be [youtu.be] Can USAians even find on a map / globe: 1. Africa 2. South Africa 3. etc, etc (New Zealand, Australia, Korea, Iraq,....) But happy to scream protest and point fingers. Where on the map IS that "Iraq"? Oh, you just bombed C...
[09:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:19] <exec> 08└─Now updated? To: 1, 2,.. 3,... 4,....... 5. That's the same combination as my luggage! We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type....
[09:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:37] <exec> 08└─We're talking about a 5% death rate for COVID-19.
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[10:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:59] <exec> 08└─but where is the 36th?
[10:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:01] <exec> 08└─The best proof that there are alien civilizations out there that are intelligent is the simple fact that they have NOT tried to contact us.
[10:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Researchers Boost Efficiency of Satellite-Based Quantum Cryptography - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:10] <exec> 08└─Agreed, that is entirely usable. But 16K-bit what, RSA? If the key exchange is secure, they should just use it to send smaller symmetric keys. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] An RSA key length of 3072 bits should be used if security is required...
[10:22:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 712 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:53] <exec> 08└─I remember when Trump says "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!" and then “It’s one person coming in from China...
[10:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:28] <exec> 08└─If the next-gen consoles were PCs, they would be a great value. Likely $450-$500 price tag for either PS5 or XSX, probably $50 less for the PS5 "Digital Edition" without an optical drive. And you get an 8-core CPU, GPU around the performance of RTX 2080 or RTX 2080 Super (but with even better ray-tr...
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[10:24:41] <exec> 08└─Did the virus also promise not to infect the protesters with long guns on the Michigan Capitol steps [nbcnews.com]? In both cases, the answer is no. However, the risk of being infected is considerably lower outdoors [nytimes.com] because the virus is rapidly diluted in the air outdoors, particularly...
[10:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:42] <exec> 08└─We are almost certainly undercounting infections for the reasons you suggested and also the limited availability of testing for even more serious cases. However, we are also almost certainly undercounting the deaths from COVID-19 [nytimes.com].
[10:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:44] <exec> 08└─Their version of black citizens would be Uighurs
[10:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:47] <exec> 08└─You are overthinking that line. But you're right, what's happening to Yogurts... dragons... Uyghurs is way worse than what is happening to blacks in America. It has been called ethnic cleansing and genocide. The end goal is to gradually replace their ethnicity with Han Chinese, same deal in Tibet [w...
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[11:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:08] <exec> 08└─All I want to hear from them is "We surrender!" as we conquer their systems.
[11:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:09] <exec> 08└─Researchers can't help taking a crack at the Drake equation now that we have decent estimates for exoplanet and potentially habitable exoplanet prevalence. Things will get more interesting once we have good imaging of (considered to be) potentially potentially habitable exoplanets. If we see evidenc...
[11:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:11] <exec> 08└─By that reasoning, isn't it more likely that we would be found by others, rather than the other way around?
[11:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:31] <exec> 08└─Banking systems in many African countries are rife with (potential) fraud. You can't trust any of your employees, so many banks have extensive internal controls to deal with this, e.g. bank staff will sell ATM access to crooks so the banks make sure there are separate, unconnected divisions doing th...
[11:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:15] <exec> 08└─... I'm going to continue to raise my children organically.
[11:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:56] <exec> 08└─And we did this one months ago: Distributing urns has nothing to do with actual deaths. It could be that they were stockpiling them in case of further deaths. It could be that someone had panic-ordered a bazillion of them and they had to get rid of them somehow, e.g. by distributing them all over th...
[11:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:58] <exec> 08└─Uyghurs is way worse than what is happening to blacks in America today
[11:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:00] <exec> 08└─You don't preemptively fire the ovens, however.
[11:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Train MARS Rover AI - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:12] <exec> 08└─They couldn't find something on K to make the name SPOCK?
[11:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Motors Opening Reservations for Badger Electric Pickup Truck on June 27 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe most people already knew it. Nikola Tesla street, in Rjeka, was there already since the late 70s. Didn't know the guy was so awesome back then, though.
[11:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Motors Opening Reservations for Badger Electric Pickup Truck on June 27 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:36] <exec> 08└─Like hell we didn't catch it. The "Bizarro Tesla Motors" is clearly Nikola Motors. It also sets up the most obvious merger name in history. Nikola Tesla Motors.
[11:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volcanic Glass Spray Shows Promise in Controlling Mosquitoes - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:05] <exec> 08└─Basically DE is too big by orders of magnitude to cause chronic lung problems.
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[12:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:00] <exec> 08└─One of these days Bob is just going to ask her out on a date rather than stalk her.
[12:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:02] <exec> 08└─Charlie wouldn't let that happen.
[12:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:16] <exec> 08└─Does it matter? Unless they manage to land on the White House lawn or communicate with us, being found from a distance doesn't tell us anything. I think we have a decent chance of turning on the right spec'd telescope(s) and just finding evidence of life (not necessarily intelligent/broadcasting) ve...
[12:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:18] <exec> 08└─I can see 35 ones... but where is the 36th?
[12:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:20] <exec> 08└─This is fun, my turn! I estimate that there are 16 ancient city-state civilizations more technologically advanced than us lost to natural disasters that caused them to sink into the ocean.
[12:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:22] <exec> 08└─The Lost City of Atlanta?
[12:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:55] <exec> 08└─Plutonium is a fissile bomb, you just need critical mass and a detonator to assemble it. Don't tell me that they'll let international inspections confirm the absence of warhead configurations on the craft - things like these have already been released from the X37B.
[12:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:56] <exec> 08└─It would be more likely to run on uranium. NASA built and ground tested these rockets in the 70s. They worked and were ready to fly. They were canceled because Nixon hated the space program and didn't want to go to Mars, and if NASA had an engine that made going to Mars practical, then Congress migh...
[12:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:58] <exec> 08└─how about "the sexy neutron activation witch"? steer clear of her brooms exhaust plume ^_^
[12:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanisae [1908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:00] <exec> 08└─Some impressive misunderstanding of what an NTR does, as it only generates heat and transfers that heat to a working fluid. It can be made with a few different fuels, enriched uranium or a tiny bit of enriched uranium and thorium. Until the reactor is started, the fuels are minimally radioactive, an...
[12:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:34] <exec> 08└─Global conspiracies are easy once you have a single financial system ruling over most aspects of life. You may disagree, time will tell. TFA: [retractions] have alarmed scientists worldwide who fear that the rush for research on the coronavirus has overwhelmed the peer review process... Given the wi...
[12:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:35] <exec> 08└─I dunno about you but I would give more exposure to one thing that has a direct correlation with less deaths over one that has an inverse correlation with them.
[12:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:37] <exec> 08└─In soviet russia the soviet paradise predicts YOU!!!
[12:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:39] <exec> 08└─> raise my children organically Only natural fertiliser for them and no pesticides in the paddling pool?
[12:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:03] <exec> 08└─While I think console gaming is pretty lame, I have to give Sony credit for sticking to a sane naming scheme for their consoles after all of these years. Xbox One was just dumb. Now Xbox Series X. WTF?
[12:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:24] <exec> 08└─Black in America have already been made ethnically USian. Like do they natively use any languages that aren't English? No. But when China is doing this it's bad, because language those Turks are forced to switch to isn't English. And that's all this fight is about.
[12:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:26] <exec> 08└─That's a different conspiracy theory: China, notorious for its heavy pollution, experiences less pollution during the lockdown. When pollution returns after the lockdown ends it's obviously due to secret crematoria being run and not because of, well, the usual pollution returning once the lockdown e...
[12:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:28] <exec> 08└─Go back 200 years
[12:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:30] <exec> 08└─Comparing current events seems fair to me.
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[13:21:59] <exec> 08└─Crysis is now an older title, Renoir is pretty good as expected, and it's designed to run at as low as a 10W TDP, a potential passive cooling target. One thing to note about Renoir is that AMD sacrificed potential GPU performance (increased performance overall, but with reduced GPU cores and less di...
[13:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:01] <exec> 08└─... that was an experiment in controlled nuclear fusion.
[13:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:12] <exec> 08└─iPhones Rendered Almost Useless
[13:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:14] <exec> 08└─IMHO the whole contact tracing app scene is a complete scam. Some people will get rich off it. I'm very doubtful about it actually helping.
[13:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:16] <exec> 08└─What is a phone's "ID", and why would something that appears to be an identifier "expire", as that seems like a pretty useless fricken' feature identifier to me.
[13:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I wavered - either remove 'feature', or insert 'for an'. To err is human, to waver cosine.
[13:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─so banal
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:37] <exec> 08└─Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - and none of them are on THIS planet.
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─I think it's closer to 42.
[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Researchers Boost Efficiency of Satellite-Based Quantum Cryptography - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─Bullshit.
[13:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:20] <exec> 08└─shorter and gender neutral: "necromancers deelite"?
[13:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:21] <exec> 08└─how about "the sexy neutron activation witch"?
[13:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:59] <exec> 08└─Back to the feudal era for you. Donate your computer to charity and get back to peasant life. You might find Amish communities in the USA relevant to your interests and receptive to your views.
[13:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─He also said "If we manage to stay below 100,000 deaths, we will have done a good job" somewhere in between.
[13:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:03] <exec> 08└─You also worship a dead god who must be resurrected every spring in a pagan ritual.
[13:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:05] <exec> 08└─That's odd. Maybe you've been watching too much of that. I don't recommend the pseudo-left, because you'll come to absurd conclusions like that. I was influenced by ST:TOS, which features a socialist society predicated on the labor theory of value, socialist culture, post-scarcity, and an optimistic...
[13:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:07] <exec> 08└─Those children will smell of manure and urine. Hmm, just like normal. Carry on.
[13:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:09] <exec> 08└─You might find Amish communities in the USA relevant to your interests and receptive to your views.
[13:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:11] <exec> 08└─Tja, that would work if you hadn't chosen to shelter at the Jack Daniels distillery.
[13:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:14] <exec> 08└─Boy did you fail Div School. It's a commemoration of the Son of God who defeated death, not a cyclical repetition of that act like the Mayan re-lighting of the sun or something. Anyway why are you so dismissive of pagans? I am not one, but they seem to have a good time. Did someone pee in your Cheer...
[13:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:16] <exec> 08└─The conversation is the peer review on Soylent, aristarchus.
[13:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, it was bad, but not this bad. The Left and Right quibbled, but both believed in the core ethos of America. These now believe in nothing but nihilism; they are the Red Guards. Every man, woman, and child who cherishes civilization should fight them hard because they are the quintessence of barba...
[13:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:20] <exec> 08└─It's data from Google's hoover. Of course they have that data.
[13:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:45] <exec> 08└─you can save about 2 to 3 cpu cores if you don't need to "run" winblows under the hood. THAT's probably the main performance benefit of consoles :P
[13:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:10] <exec> 08└─You're nuts, but thanks for clarifying
[13:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:12] <exec> 08└─You having an axe to grind in this regards
[13:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:14] <exec> 08└─You having an axe to grind in this regards
[13:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:16] <exec> 08└─You having an axe to grind in this regards still doesn't bring the equivalency of "Uyghurs are the Afro-Americans of China" any closer to the truth.
[13:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not projecting anything. My argument was that tak's whataboutism is of a worse quality than OP's whataboutism. You even had to hearken back to the distant past in order to make a bogus comparison.
[13:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:20] <exec> 08└─At least the Chinese police aren't murdering their Black citizens.
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[14:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:09] <exec> 08└─Four cores, four threads, 2700/3700MHz? Fuck, it'd better run cool. The ten year old Phenom II x6 that just got the boot as my gaming rig was six cores, six threads, and 3200/3600MHz and it never got above 50C with non-impressive air cooling.
[14:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:10] <exec> 08└─Wow indeed. Do you really need that much computing power to play minesweeper? (grin)
[14:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:12] <exec> 08└─Butbutbut how can you play that lame old 2D minesweeper. You need 3D animations and loading screens after every move, and of course 4K support so you can really see it all blow up.
[14:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:14] <exec> 08└─You misspelled nethack.
[14:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:16] <exec> 08└─Mea culpa. Does Dwarf Fortress plays OK, tho'?
[14:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:30] <exec> 08└─IMHO the whole contact tracing app scene is a complete scam... I'm very doubtful about it actually helping.
[14:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─Everyone in Australia has a smartphone. Apparently it's only 69% [wikipedia.org] but I don't believe that. You would really have to go out of your way to buy a non-smartphone.
[14:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:33] <exec> 08└─This shit is useless
[14:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─What is a phone's "ID", and why would something that appears to be an identifier "expire", as that seems like a pretty useless fricken' feature identifier to me.
[14:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─I am impressed that the source code has been published. On the other hand, I am not impressed that they have chosen to roll-their-own [github.com] license. Clauses 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are objectionable. Clause 2 prohibits me from actually building the application, clause 4 is childish, clause 5 is limi...
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─Ugh, sounds like a programmer's inability to understand programming terminology. You don't get a new ID from an API. That's like saying you get food from a recipe book. But yes, it looks like a shitily-written piece of code, I recommend everyone installs it on their derpphones. Everyone but me.
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─>> ...and can't hurt. It can't hurt until the government shows up at your door for attending a meeting of the wrong political party. You have three minute to pack your bags, please leave your valuables in this box on your way out.
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─and if anyone around her tested positive she would not be contacted."
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─I agree, that's a terrible licence. Egregiously terrible. Pluck my own eyes out while reading it terrible. However, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with the public domain.
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:48] <exec> 08└─It can't hurt until the government shows up at your door for attending a meeting of the wrong political party.
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:51] <exec> 08└─Good. Please let me know when that happens. Until then it may help and you're making shit up. Thanks.
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─They're holding you wrong.
[14:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:55] <exec> 08└─Wow. I thought surely y'all were exaggerating until I opened and read the license. Why would anyone, anywhere agree to these terms? It has unconscionable clauses IMO, though IANAL. And not even a, "if a court finds any part of this unenforceable the rest of the license remains in force," so if any p...
[14:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:15] <exec> 08└─420? They're trying to solve an equation for which the most important variable is missing: how did life start here in the first place? Unless someone calls or visits us or we answer that question, there's no possible way to determine if we're alone or living in a crowded galaxy. After all, this is t...
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:17] <exec> 08└─OP here... Researchers can't help taking a crack at the Drake equation now that we have decent estimates for exoplanet and potentially habitable exoplanet prevalence.
[14:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:19] <exec> 08└─The abiogenesis question is a lot closer to being answered than ever before. None of the steps that would be necessary are impossible. Compounds form, structures form, composite structures form, complex structures form. That which we are made from has incredible stability, it could easily have been...
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:21] <exec> 08└─You know how we complain that most headlines about research papers should have the phrase "in mice" appended? I suggest that we also prepend headlines for research papers like this one with "Millennial 'scientists' say..." so that we can skip their idiotic ramblings. Real science works like this: yo...
[14:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:50] <exec> 08└─We agree on the trajectory, but not the outcome. Armed Antifa and Woke are seizing territory in American cities and burning and looting and killing. The government is allowing it to happen, which means the reaction will not be controlled and will consume everyone and everything. Cast your lot carefu...
[14:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:51] <exec> 08└─He's also a flat earther so your reasoned arguments are falling on barren ground.
[14:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:53] <exec> 08└─Don't delude yourself, noone can peer with aristarchus, much less review him.
[14:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:20] <exec> 08└─Memory doesn't necessarily have much to do with it. As I mentioned a few posts above, If you're loading thousands of assets for a game-region from a database-style, duplication-free file, then it's going to take thousands of seek operations to complete, which means tens of seconds of additional load...
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─They're building up to Xbox XP.
[14:25:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 565 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:55] <exec> 08└─No it isn't. Trump's fuckups are very clearly his own, and there is no need to make him seem worse than he is. From pushing against lockdowns, for preemptive re-openings, all the way to inspiring fatal remedies yes he is very responsible for many deaths. Directly responsible for the wife of at least...
[14:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:52] <exec> 08└─Same thing with ethnic Mongols in Inner Mongolia, though further along: they are already a minority there relative to Han. As far as black people go, China rounded up all of them summarily over the coronavirus and expelled them from the country as the vectors that infected China.
[14:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:54] <exec> 08└─and if you've been following criticism of the numbers from Western democracies, we find that everybody has been lying about their numbers.
[14:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:56] <exec> 08└─Doesn't this make a compelling argument that the two situations (USes black and China's Uyghurs) can't be actually compared?
[14:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:58] <exec> 08└─No. There is a huge difference between a government which doesn't come pose questions when you invite a foreigner in your home, and one that does. There is a huge difference between a government where you can form an action group about an issue that bothers you, and a government that requires an ext...
[14:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:00] <exec> 08└─Individual Chinese researchers published the gene sequence, if I remember correctly: the next day their lab was closed, and they had to start explaining.
[14:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:02] <exec> 08└─These crematoria were allegedly being run __before__ the official lockdown, not after.
[14:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Motors Opening Reservations for Badger Electric Pickup Truck on June 27 - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:38] <exec> 08└─Ford is hedging its bets. The F-150 keeps the lights on there. My brother works in the R&D division there and says the company has been chasing Tesla for 4-5 years. His initial reaction to the Cybertruck was, "Tesla shit the bed with this one," but a lot of people put down deposits on them. That has...
[14:29:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Username [4557] 02 - 06Google Resumes its Senseless Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85 - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:44] <exec> 08└─I know of noone that wants this. This is like my new android phone not having AM or PM units. This is like going to a car dealership and them telling you the car gets 100, and they hide the vin numbers. Why hide the vin? 100... what? What is the unit of measurement?
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[15:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:56] <exec> 08└─... we haven't had the year of Linux on desktop.
[15:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:10] <exec> 08└─I was looking into Dwarf Fortress performance yesterday, and I found this: https://dwarffortresswiki.org [dwarffortresswiki.org] As Dwarf Fortress's bottlenecks are mostly due to cache misses, it has been speculated on the DF forums that "a CPU with a positively...
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[15:22:11] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem a very practical test. Passive cooling at the least is such a small extra that in most environments ways can be found to accommodate something.
[15:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:13] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem a very practical test.
[15:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:16] <exec> 08└─Sure, sure... but will it run Crys... oh, wait.
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─Or is it hot? I can't tell.
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─Found the Democrat!
[15:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─I am impressed that the source code has been published.
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─No, I suspect the programmers were trying to do the right thing - they just came unstuck when the API behaved in an unexpected way. Every smart programmer knows not to roll their own cryptography, so (and this is pure conjecture here) they tried to use a crypto-API to generate a properly salted hash...
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:51] <exec> 08└─and if anyone around her tested positive she would not be contacted.
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─"can't hurt" i disagree, I think it adds an extra layer of normality to government tracking.
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─Amen to that - simply being able to read the code does inspire trust. This is probably the most benign application a smartphone will ever run. If I understand correctly, there is no network access. The app simply collects IDs of the other apps that have been in range. If a person falls sick, the pho...
[15:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─If that's a real concern for you*, move out of whatever shithole you live in. *Criminal gangs [wikipedia.org] aren't political parties, so if that's what you're referring to, go get some more tattoos on your face, I'm sure you'll feel right at home in prison. I understand there's lots of violent, ha...
[15:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that rabid Democrat [vox.com] really fucked us over. Idiot.
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─"can't hurt" i disagree, I think it adds an extra layer of normality to government tracking.
[15:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─I do declare... I need to buy more shares of Coca-Cola and invest more in Donovan! Thanks, TMB... this is Good News!
[15:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:29] <exec> 08└─There is some value to this rampant speculation in the field. For example, astrobiologists are speculating about what kind of biosignatures they need to look for to attempt to find life. But a powerful tool for doing that has been delayed by years: the James Webb Space Telescope. Once that's launche...
[15:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─Real science works like this: you develop a theory and test it with experiment.
[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─What a load of baloney.
[15:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─Well, shoot, you've convinced me!
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Researchers Boost Efficiency of Satellite-Based Quantum Cryptography - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that western, freedom loving(C)(TM) sat operators do not keep a copy of the traffic for "X years" as their local laws demand ? Fucking every government monitors everything going over those links. lol Secure means many things to many different people. In this case, the communication...
[15:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─An employee left the gate open and all of the depositors' cattle ran away.
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:01] <exec> 08└─South Africa didn't use to be like that.
[15:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:11] <exec> 08└─I remember when medical professionals were debating hydroxychloroquine use and Trump was pushing its use despite there not being solid scientific evidence to use it, only enough possibility to warrant testing. (As opposed to letting the professionals speak for themselves). In other words, practicing...
[15:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─Even on the Xbox Series Sex? :P
[15:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:41] <exec> 08└─Just as Sony was consistently giving its consoles the correct names, MS/Xbox gave theirs the bad ones: Xbox (OK) Xbox 360 (...) Xbox One (wat) Xbox Series X (GTFO)
[15:26:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:14] <exec> 08└─The default position is to doubt Chinese stats, with good reasons. But give them a credit where it's due. They published the gene sequence of the virus so others can develop test kits.
[15:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:18] <exec> 08└─Hopefully, not turn into a communist dictatorship, because this horrible virus is going around killing 4% or less of the people infected. You dislike Trump now? How would you like dictator Trump, for life? For all of the problems with our current system, we've got plenty of worse options to choose f...
[15:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:20] <exec> 08└─My dislike of Trump is orders of magnitude less than my hate of Washington swamp in general and Clinton's gang in particular. Over the last three decades they methodically destroyed the country. The core - while middle class men - were hit especially hard. Not to say that black men got it much easie...
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[16:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:00] <exec> 08└─I dunno about you but I've had the decade or better of it. It's so much fun to be able to tell folks that the last version of Windows I even used enough to be able to tech support it is Windows 7.
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:01] <exec> 08└─I dunno about you but I've had the decade or better of it.
[16:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:03] <exec> 08└─We going with big numbers now like Chrome? The 2.0.x kernel series was around for how many years?
[16:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:05] <exec> 08└─Has he been giving himself a military rank now? Delusions of grandeur? It's like him and Colonel Sanders then. What is next? Is Linus going to start talking about himself in the third person or is he more into the royal "we"? Also I'm not sure I would be proud of it being the largest release ever,...
[16:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:07] <exec> 08└─Don't worry - it will soon be the year of systemd ... ... Be afraid, be very afraid <omenous music>
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─Pffft, like I'd play that bloated monstrosity. There's gotta be at least 400K lines of code in that thing.
[16:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06AMD Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' APU Runs Crysis Without Any Cooling Solution - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:27] <exec> 08└─So that's what ITER has been doing wrong all along. Of course, they should have been doing Crysis benchmarks without the heatsinks! I've bet they've been doing Crysis benchmarks with the heatsinks all along. The fan vibrations was likely causing instability of the containment field. This makes so mu...
[16:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─That means that you're tracking EVERYPLACE that Alice has been, in great detail. No wonder the app is pushing this shit. This is backward for what any individual would want.
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─When "being locked" is an edge case, then these damned youngsters are on their phones too much!
[16:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:08] <exec> 08└─Adjust your medication.
[16:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:10] <exec> 08└─Enjoy the ride down the slippery slope, sheep person.
[16:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:40] <exec> 08└─And take their oil! Yes!
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:42] <exec> 08└─There's nothing minima about my midsection. Theory fails.
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─Plutonium is NOT a fissile bomb. You can *make* a bomb out of it, but it's a very different process than making a thermal reactor out of it (a reactor may melt down, but it's unlikely to explode) A nuclear thermal rocket could make a nasty radioactive mess if it crashed (after operating for a long t...
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:28] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not like you're spitting fission product out the back end of the rocket like an Orion would, but as I recall, many/most NTR designs use the propellant itself as the working fluid to maximize efficiency, so they are spraying heavily irradiated propellant out the back. If that's pure hydrog...
[16:24:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 337 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:50] <exec> 08└─Once again, correlation is not causation. The maps I just looked at show that covid is just taking a little more time to get to the poorer parts of the world, possibly because there isn't so much international travel to those places where poverty and malaria are common. Give it another few weeks (ju...
[16:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:22] <exec> 08└─Funny. Way I see it politicians are abusing science, not the other way around. This may be hard for you to grasp, but Remdesivir is a known broad spectrum antiviral medication, and COVID is a virus. There was a lot more evidence for trying remdesivir than -quines. Both trials failed and were stopped...
[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:23] <exec> 08└─It should have been quite clear to anyone that there was no time for proper peer-review when they keep pushing these out while it's still happening. So they gambled, with their reputations, that this would pan out and be correct and that there would be no objections. After all if you are the first t...
[16:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:31] <exec> 08└─You just sound like your regular democrat there, refusing to clean up your own house. All you have are distractions. I expected better from you
[16:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:32] <exec> 08└─Yep, Trump is fairly normal [caitlinjohnstone.com], but some consider him to be a bit too revealing.
[16:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:35] <exec> 08└─Uighur men go to Syria [alarabiya.net]. They are not the quiet little group of hobbits people think they are.
[16:30:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Resumes its Senseless Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85 - 1088 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:28] <exec> 08└─Remember all the companies back in the 1990s attempting to become your "portal" to the internet? (Yahoo being a famous example?) That didn't work out so well once the search engines became good enough. All Google's efforts are just a different way for them to enhance their role as defacto portal for...
[16:30:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Google Resumes its Senseless Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85 - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:38] <exec> 08└─the desktop has been abandoned.
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[17:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:59] <exec> 08└─The real shock will be the next year insurance bill.
[17:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:00] <exec> 08└─Health insurance is a big magical pile of money in the sky. Just ask Big Pharma about it's new drug pricing.
[17:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:02] <exec> 08└─Supposedly there is a hospital group that makes more money off of investments than actual hospital work. Ridiculous, at that point the hospitals should be free or low cost. I want out of this dystopia and the tenuous illusion of freedom.
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:15] <exec> 08└─On the 'desktop' linux is not going anywhere. However, it basically has 'won'. It is pretty much the goto server OS (usually some redhat distro). At least 60% of the phones shipped have a kernel in it. The busybox distro is probably one of the most used distros out there being the core of most IoT d...
[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:17] <exec> 08└─Fucking suspend you bastard. SUSPEND. Even Führer Billy Boy could program that shit.
[17:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:19] <exec> 08└─Who said he gave himself the rank? Who said he is proud of the size? What's wrong with you? Usually Linus hates big releases, but he understands if it has to be that way, like it is now.
[17:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:21] <exec> 08└─btw [wikipedia.org]
[17:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:23] <exec> 08└─Windows free since 1999 (Win XP if memory serves, (SP2?)). Something like that...my ROM/RAM is faulty....
[17:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:26] <exec> 08└─No, we just had the decade of Linux and Unix on the devices that for most people replaced desktops. If you wanted the year of the GNU/Linux machine you should have specified. In any case, with the way the distro design process has been going, by the time the official desktop share is mostly Linux, n...
[17:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:28] <exec> 08└─Ditto, except it's decades, and my Win version is NT4.0
[17:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new systemd filesystem!
[17:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─My Ubuntu laptop suspends just fine!
[17:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─I just put this here with no personal opinion expressed. https://www.mayerdan.com [mayerdan.com]
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─Chromebooks are very popular. Isn't that a Linux desktop? Chrome OS has been beta testing Linux apps (eg, GIMP, Inkscape, LibreOffice, etc) for a couple years. I believe the end point of this is that there will be a curated "app store" of Linux desktop apps. End users won't know or care that these a...
[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─I always hear that Linux is getting better this year, but it seems to have reached an asymptotic limit with that last bit of desktop usability/stability forever not-fixed. Just more churn each time. I am not saying Linux is unusable though, because I am comparing it against other desktop OSes (Windo...
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─That's funny - sometimes my audio refuses to turn on, and the only way I've found of getting it to work is to pm-suspend the whole box and resume it. However, there's a reason Linux was so far behind Windows for power management support - Microsoft forced lots of power management related interfaces...
[17:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:41] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that doing different drugs make me more tolerant of violent hate-filled thugs?
[17:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Like all those billionaire "climate scientists."
[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:44] <exec> 08└─If they can contact Alice when she's been exposed, rather than Alice having to check in the public "infected lists" to see for herself if she's recorded any contacts with people on it, then it's definitely mass-surveillance infrastructure. And from a quick read into the particulars it sounds like th...
[17:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:46] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter how secure and well coded this app is, the system is open to abuse. People infected others for profit and malevolence during pandemies, here you need the cellphone of a declared positive and you can quarantine the coworker, the ex, the political adversaries before elections, take o...
[17:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:49] <exec> 08└─So nobody has land-lines anymore? Meanwhile here in the U.S. I know a whole lot of people who do in fact go out of their way to get non-smartphones, for any of several reasons including: They're considerably cheaper both to buy and to operate (smartphone plans can easily cost several times more per...
[17:23:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─The best proof that there are alien civilizations out there that are intelligent is the simple fact that they have NOT tried to contact us.
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should do something about that. Libertariancare becomes more compelling. You don't want to pay for my healthcare because "there is no money" for about $20 or $30 or so of generic meds per month, and I sure the fuck don't want to pay for your daily fatass blood sugar tests, insulin, hyperte...
[17:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:23] <exec> 08└─And take our oil! Yes!
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─Extrapolating from our data, err I mean datum ...
[17:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:11] <exec> 08└─Point being: if they're already launching a plutonium thermal reactor, who's to know if there's also another 11kg of Pu239 onboard (in warhead configuration) for "contingent mission purposes"?
[17:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:12] <exec> 08└─Why would you think having a plutonium-fueled rocket would make that any more likely than with a chemically fueled rocket? There could be warheads launched as part of every Starlink launch, do you think anyone inspects them to make sure there's not? You think the US military lets anyone else inspect...
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─They'll be begging for Hydroquinone after the scientists get their way.
[17:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─The "other side" is quietly wondering what the darn kids are yapping about now and turning up the TV.
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─>dead god oxymoron, kid
[17:26:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:30] <exec> 08└─To make your point a little more explicit: If all the assets (geometry, logic, characters, textures, mailboxes, etc) for a game region are duplicated into a single sequential block on disc, so you can load it all in a single pass, then the entire loading process requires only a single seek operation...
[17:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:41] <exec> 08└─Ever since I saw a game store all its assets as 20,000 PNG and WAV files inside one giant ZIP file, I'm inclined to assume that all issues with game load times are caused by simple incompetence.
[17:27:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 1911 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:16] <exec> 08└─The right has been claiming that COVID-19 is no deadlier than the seasonal flu. They've cherry picked a preprint that suggested the infection fatality rate was between 0.12% and 0.5% to bolster their claim. Of course, this doesn't take into account the severe long-term effects that simply do not occ...
[17:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:24] <exec> 08└─Ah, but the corollary, "The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- Uncertain if he really said that, but the subject is incomplete without it. I still prefer focus on our own domestic liars more than those of foreign adversaries that we can't do any...
[17:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:25] <exec> 08└─And Iraq has nukes and is overturning incubators! This means WAR! Anybody bother to verify this shit?
[17:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boxer Cleared of Doping after Sex Explanation Keeps Olympic Dream Alive - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:11] <exec> 08└─Ooh dirty talk, spank me!
[17:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boxer Cleared of Doping after Sex Explanation Keeps Olympic Dream Alive - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:12] <exec> 08└─Are you saying she injected it?! Woooooah. Fap fap fap.
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[18:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:09] <exec> 08└─Health insurance? Oh, I remember that. Such good times.
[18:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:10] <exec> 08└─The US has the best healthcare in the world! Everything about it is perfect. It's just a bunch of librul whingers sucking at the public teat that complain about high costs. Don't listen to a bunch of far left *academics* whose dearest wish is to turn our beloved country into a communist authoritaria...
[18:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:12] <exec> 08└─Don't you have a Northern police precinct to occupy?
[18:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─What's wrong? Don't like the image you see in the mirror I held up for you? You might want to think about that. Then again, thinking is probably too much to ask for you, huh?
[18:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─The real shock will be the next year insurance bill.
[18:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─Take that $10k/yr and save or invest it instead. Imagine how much extra money you would have if you and your parents had done this. Health insurance is for idiots and people trying to avoid taxes. And you morons want to force us to buy into the scam.
[18:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:21] <exec> 08└─Tell those bastards to pay for it
[18:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that way I can just file for bankruptcy when I need surgery (in 2017 I had spine surgery which, all told, would have cost me > USD$50,000 without insurance) or get hit by a bus [pix11.com]. Because I'm not a sociopath, I sincerely hope you don't find yourself in that situation. But if you do,...
[18:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:25] <exec> 08└─Tell those bastards to pay for it
[18:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:28] <exec> 08└─How did he die with 1/2 of his body is sticking out the windshield of the car he was driving? He tested positive for COVID-19 so it was marked as a covid death. Hospitals get more money for covid from uncle sam than insurance from a car accident.
[18:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:30] <exec> 08└─Tell those bastards [Washington DC] to pay for it
[18:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:32] <exec> 08└─Hospitals get more money for covid from uncle sam than insurance from a car accident.
[18:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:34] <exec> 08└─only cowards, sell outs, idiots, or a combination thereof pay the federal income tax.
[18:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─why would anyone pay for health insurance? you can prevent illness with proper nutrition and exercise. Anything serious they have to treat you then you can mail them $5 a month or something should that ever happen. Fuck Big Pharma and Big Health. I also have zero sympathy for costs going up for peop...
[18:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:38] <exec> 08└─As long as they do the paperwork... That's what we hired them for... "those bastards"™ -- Let's keep Saigon Soylent beautiful
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─If you use Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/... there's long been a curated "app store". Actually, the same is true of Red Hat versions, though it's a different store. Also, I believe, for Gentoo and affiliates, though there it's a source repository. The only exception I can think of off-hand is Slackware, and ev...
[18:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─last version of Windows I even used enough to be able to tech support it is Windows 7.
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─Even Führer Billy Boy could program that shit.
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─That's funny because for 20 or more years that is all I heard about Windows, or rather, most Microsoft software. Yeah, it sucks, it blue screens, etc., but it is getting better so I'm sticking with it. I've spent years teasing many of my coworkers that the best they can claim on each major release (...
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─You're not as clever as you think you are.
[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 3705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, landlines exist. Of course, households that have a landline also have a mobile for each adult and teen. As I alluded above, it would be considered highly unusual not to have a mobile, and also highly unusual for it not to be a smartphone. The distribution is dependent of the age of householders...
[18:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:54] <exec> 08└─The Lost City of Atlanta?
[18:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:56] <exec> 08└─Especially after getting those sat streamed tv series. -chief -wat -couple news, first, they are at it again -footage of copulating pink waterbags i guess -yep -ill never get those critters, watching instead of performing, it's as retarded as watching some meal being prepared instead of going to eat...
[18:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:58] <exec> 08└─and, wait till they get e-sports and the virtual F1 grand prix, they will set phasers on kill.
[18:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─It is also used to generate keys for customer cards.
[18:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:26] <exec> 08└─Yes. This is what happens when the monkeys take over the zoo.
[18:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:59] <exec> 08└─Considering how soft he's been on China the whole time, I don't suspect you'll need to worry. All that stimulus and money printing we just engaged in effectively made that debt to China significantly lower, thanks to inflation. Just don't call it currency manipulation. At the end of the day, that de...
[18:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boxer Cleared of Doping after Sex Explanation Keeps Olympic Dream Alive - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:46] <exec> 08└─Plausible deniability. That's all you need.
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[19:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:21] <exec> 08└─Or you can take those saved tens of thousands of dollars and go on a 'medical tourism' trip for a tiny fraction of the cost. And the quality tends to be comparable. Most doctors are western trained and the tourist hospitals take their care very seriously since it's a huge source of revenue and a bad...
[19:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:22] <exec> 08└─I'd rather work towards a single-payer healthcare system like *civilized* countries have.
[19:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:24] <exec> 08└─You should have way more than $50k saved from not giving it away to scammers by the time you are an adult. And the correct thing to do is get sensible insurance with very low premium but high deductible for whatever you can't cover. Eg, if you have $100k saved for health issues then you want insuran...
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─Glad you're liking your Obamacare.
[19:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─Poor people pay taxes. Rich people [nytimes.com] do knot. [npr.org]
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─Eisenberg and colleagues
[19:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:33] <exec> 08└─You should have way more than $50k saved from not giving it away to scammers by the time you are an adult.
[19:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:04] <exec> 08└─many idiots, possibly like you, buy the most closed piece of shit laptop they can find, without even checking compatibility, and then whine and complain to Free Software devs when some feature doesn't work. These idiots should go back to windows/mac. We don;'t need any more.
[19:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:05] <exec> 08└─you're a fucking idiot.
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─desktop usability/stability? that's not linux's job, that's the full operating system. if you're unhappy with gnome or kde or xfce or whatever, that's a completely different set of developers that you should complain to. proper computers have been using linux for decades, and there's no sign of that...
[19:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:14] <exec> 08└─aussies will do anything "the authorities" tell them to. sad state of affairs. i saw a gun review where the aussie reviewer said they have gun storage laws that state that one has to remove the bolt while storing a rifle. fucking pitiful.
[19:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:15] <exec> 08└─yeah, so it's way more dangerous.
[19:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:17] <exec> 08└─And not even a, "if a court finds any part of this unenforceable the rest of the license remains in force," so if any provision is unlawful the entirety of the agreement fails.
[19:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:20] <exec> 08└─the system is open to abuse
[19:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:22] <exec> 08└─In an old smarphone with removable battery there was a hidden extra battery. I imagine they've done the same with all new phones.
[19:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─I deal with farmers on the phone almost every day using their cell phone. OMG! Take those things away from them. It's common to not be able to make out a word they are saying.
[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─I like having a device in my pocket that makes calls and can look up information. I don't want to live behind shuttered windows, and to only do cash-in-hand jobs simply to hide from The Man. It's OK to want freedom, convenience, and an active place in modern society. It's also OK to inform our gover...
[19:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:05] <exec> 08└─RESPECT FOR THE SPHERICAL COW
[19:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:06] <exec> 08└─>The abiogenesis question is a lot closer to being answered than ever before You cannot reply to the abiogenesis question until you have reverse engineered the universe and you cannot prove you did it from the inside. Cue retarded atheist accusing me to shift goalposts no true scotsman whatever I am...
[19:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:35] <exec> 08└─https://invidio.us/watch?v=a_bDc7FfItk [invidio.us]
[19:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:59] <exec> 08└─Or just... GOATSE
[19:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:57] <exec> 08└─"BTW, under the freedom principle of 'my right to swing my fists stops at your nose', foregoing vaccinations/immunizations violates that principle. Anti-vax advocates are advocating 'punching random people in the nose', but in reality, even worse...illness at best, and death at worse." No it doesn't...
[19:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:12] <exec> 08└─+1 just for that first sentence.
[19:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:13] <exec> 08└─never happened, dumb slave.
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[20:22:03] <exec> 08└─China already investigated steroids months ago and said it makes you die faster. Do yourself and Chairman Xi a solid and refuse to take this medicine. On dexamethasone, First question I had was whether there was a link between this drug (steroids in general) and ACE2. https://www.biorxiv.org
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─If I didn't have that, I'd be uninsurable via pre-existing conditions. So, while (as I said during the debate over the ACA back in 2010) while the ACA wasn't anywhere near enough, it was Better Than Nothing™. Your weak attempt at snark just goes to show how fucked up the US healthcare system is. I...
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─Or you can take those saved tens of thousands of dollars and go on a 'medical tourism' trip for a tiny fraction of the cost.
[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─> I know a nickel isn't worth a dime anymore, but it took me until ~26 to have $50k saved. How much did your parents squander to the insurance company in your name? > Super! Where can I find such insurance? I haven't found conditions like those before, either because state insurance commissions proh...
[20:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:41] <exec> 08└─You should have way more than $50k saved from not giving it away to scammers by the time you are an adult.
[20:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─No one is forcing you to get your health insurance through your employer. Just say you have your own insurance so you dont need it. It really isnt difficult. Not sure why anyone would want their health linked to their job either. It is just a scheme to avoid taxes.
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:45] <exec> 08└─Anybody here got enough coverage for a million dollar hospital bill? https://www.seattletimes.com [seattletimes.com] Flor, 70, who came so close to death in the spring that a night-shift...
[20:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:20] <exec> 08└─I heard that it is suspected that MS might be working on making WINE compatibility good enough that they they can just switch over to Linux and not let anyone notice. This would let them cut down on dev costs as they can basically outsource it all. They aren't making their money selling Windows the...
[20:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:21] <exec> 08└─I am also Linux only when at home, now for some good 6 years. At work I use Windows, but that is because the laptop that was given to me is a Win10 and the documents that people generate are of the MS Office kind. Apart from opening natively the .docx and .xlsx files that come sometimes in email att...
[20:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:35] <exec> 08└─Being pinged, while locked, and having an expired session ID. Not saying it shouldn't have been caught by test, but don't pretend it is JUST about being locked.
[20:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─You see, the issue was actually in the part of the code that made this invasiveness of tracking harder (I assume intentionally). It seems that the system keeps a temporary ID, which it shares with those around it. If a person is found to be COVID-positive, they can see which IDs the person has been...
[20:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:17] <exec> 08└─It's true, the FactsPulledOutOfAssians are trying to communicate with us!
[20:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:19] <exec> 08└─> You cannot reply to the abiogenesis question until you have reverse engineered the universe False.
[20:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:25] <exec> 08└─Didn't a hobbit defeat Sauron? As long as most Uighurs keep their anger directed at China, it's all good.
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[21:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:05] <exec> 08└─I had heard about a drug used for arthritis that could be repurposed to fight the inflammation, and I would not trust either USA or China on this, if anything because covid escaped a lab or was planted by some pretty deep deep state.
[21:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:06] <exec> 08└─So far, the only other drug proven to benefit Covid patients is remdesivir ...
[21:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:08] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/cheap-steroid-may-lower-covid-19-death-rate-but-experts-urge-caution/ [arstechnica.com] Researchers at the University of Oxford announced Tuesday that a cheap, readily available steroid drug lowered the risk of death in COVID-19 patients who were enrolled in a...
[21:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:10] <exec> 08└─Don't these type of steroids generally *weaken* someone's immune system?
[21:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30317-2/fulltext [thelancet.com] Corticosteroids were widely used during the outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV1 and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV,2 and are being used in patients with 2019-nCoV i...
[21:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─When did more federal gov involvement make something cheaper?
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─There's no point in engaging that A/C. He's an anti-vaxxer and a flat earther, so pointing out how everyone in the world except America has found a way of providing proper healthcare to the populace without "co-pays" and "deductibles" is wasting your time. Just the statement: You should have way mor...
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─When did more federal gov involvement make something cheaper?
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─So you can't think of a single time the US federal government became more involved in something and it became cheaper? I agree. I don't think this has ever happened.
[21:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:33] <exec> 08└─It's a pun, darling. The website editor thought it witty that colonel and kernel were homophones in her dialect of English.
[21:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:35] <exec> 08└─My Windows laptop boots to 1.7 out of 3GB in use with just Task Manager open. Doing what exactly? .Net telemetry defender Edge update UWP anti malware services! Bloatware!
[21:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─'Cause I have workstations. Since '95. I do miss Free Cell though. "Desktop" Ha ha ha ha.
[21:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:34] <exec> 08└─Even with simple chemical propulsion rockets a galaxy can be completely colonized in a few million years. A million years sounds like a huge chuck of time but is an eye blink to the cosmos. Maybe we cannot detect life on the other side of the galaxy but if there was life it should be all around us b...
[21:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:35] <exec> 08└─The scientific theories underlying abiogenesis are not anywhere close to the apparent observations of Spontaneous Generation. There is also nothing anthropocentric about it either, as there isn't some requirement built in that the Universe is specially made for us or that humans are somehow special...
[21:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:38] <exec> 08└─You are misunderstanding my position on both counts. I drew a parallel and how the research is advanced does not matter. Plus the anthropocentrism is not on homo sapiens sapiens but on the assumption "I can describe interactions probabilistically therefore the system is impersonally random". Sorry c...
[21:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:45] <exec> 08└─The money directs them where to point the guns. It's strictly business
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[22:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Roman Iron Age Board Game in Norway - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:04] <exec> 08└─My grandpa used to talk about when he was a kid in Rome and they had to play Monopolus with five-sided dice. I thought he was demented but maybe he wasn't imagining it.
[22:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Roman Iron Age Board Game in Norway - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:05] <exec> 08└─Wait, are you related to our own beloved Ari?
[22:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:19] <exec> 08└─That's why you inhale bleach first, to get rid of the problems that your weakened immune system can't handle, or at least that's what I heard from some sort of stable genius.
[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:21] <exec> 08└─Oceania has completely defeated Eastasia!
[22:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:23] <exec> 08└─and it appears that it helps stop some of the damage that can happen when the body's immune system goes into overdrive as it tries to fight off coronavirus. I always get annoyed when writers use the word "overdrive" like this. Overdrive is when an engine goes into a low-speed, lower-power cruise mod...
[22:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:25] <exec> 08└─Weaken is a biased term, but it *is* acting to suppress the immune system (not quite the same thing) to minimize a cytokinetic storm. You *can* think of that as weakening the immune system, but that's not quite the right slant on it. Regulating it is better. That said, you wouldn't want to use this...
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─watch the share price as someone is getting a brand new platinum ferrari. Then watch it get slowly dismantled and forgotten (the story not the ferrari).
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─Or afterburner. I've heard that nicotine and especially marijuana slow down the infection letting the immune system catch up with the spread. I'm putting that to the test.
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─> low-speed, lower-power cruise mode with a tall gear, to save fuel while driving at a constant cruising speed. You got this part right. > Engines do not work very hard in overdrive. You got this part wrong...depending on the definition of "work hard". In overdrive (compared to normal high gear) the...
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─Average retail price of $46.90 right now and widely available generic. We'll see.
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─Anybody here got enough coverage for a million dollar hospital bill?
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─My insurance went from 90/10 (I paid 10%) with a 50-150 dollar deductible to 70/30 and a 8000 dollar deductible. The cost went from 20-30 a month to nearly 1000 a month. Yep that is *way* better. My father sold insurance in the 70s-90s. I ran the DB backend and did most of the transcribing of the bi...
[22:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─Plan overhead (~2%) and lower payments to providers makes Medicare (the US version) many times less expensive than private insurance. You're just spouting a bunch of bullshit that your anarcho-capitalist corporate masters drill into you while you gargle their jizz. Good times!
[22:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─No point to hearing unfamiliar info and learning? You just want an echo chamber?
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─*eats a clove of garlic and drinks a glass of vegetable juice with mycelium powder* What? Are you going to implement single payer healthcare now? No? Haw haw!
[22:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:26] <exec> 08└─On top of that. Here is my story. "I have a headache can you hand me my purse" "oh sure" hands over purse reaches in and pulls out a bottle of generic asprin nurse scribbles on bit of paper 2 months later 400 dollar bill for handing my mom her purse. One thing we can do is itemize all bills and put...
[22:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:29] <exec> 08└─I don't know if anyone here does, but Flor is 70, which means he is covered by Medicare.
[22:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:31] <exec> 08└─Check your bills. Hospitals put extra shit on there all the time.
[22:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:33] <exec> 08└─One thing we can do is itemize all bills and put them on the internet. Full transparency. Only one person wants that apparently in our government because the AHCA is perfect and needs no changes.
[22:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:35] <exec> 08└─No point to hearing unfamiliar info and learning? You just want an echo chamber?
[22:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:37] <exec> 08└─The year Obamacare started, my insurance premium almost doubled and deductible went up 10 times. The service at the same time was reduced to Obamacare standards. I am talking about what used to be "Cadillac" insurance at the best corporation. So yeah, we've been reduced to the N level while N were n...
[22:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─> Plan overhead (~2%) and lower payments to providers makes Medicare (the US version) many times less expensive than private insurance. Medicare was started in 1966 and now spends $740 billion/year on 60 million people. That is $12k per person per year. https://en.wikipedia.org(United...
[22:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:42] <exec> 08└─Keep giving your money away to insurance companies then... It is only yourself and your family you are hurting.
[22:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:20] <exec> 08└─If you used XP with SP2 you could not have become Windows free 1999. XP became available in late 2001 and SP2 was released 2004.
[22:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:22] <exec> 08└─Fuck off, Lennart, we don't like you.
[22:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:24] <exec> 08└─Which apps are you specifically complaining about, and how are their problems the fault of the kernel project? Because the stuff I've been using works just fine. Indeed, some of it is in many ways better than their closed-source Windows / Mac counterparts.
[22:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 1846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:26] <exec> 08└─It's my primary OS not out of preference but out of lack of serious choices. It's like the the US political systems but we get the illusion of three choices instead of two. Let's review the choices we have today: 1. Be spied on and forced to update and reboot "your" system based on another corporati...
[22:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:28] <exec> 08└─With 28 million lines of code, they better be sure they removed all references to blacklists, whitelists, master/slave relationships, and the comment Linus made in 2007 about "this counter is working harder than a field nigger". They can all be put back next week after the current news cycle ends.
[22:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locked iPhones Rendered Almost Useless in Australia's COVIDSafe Tracking Efforts - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:43] <exec> 08└─I like having a device in my pocket that makes calls and can look up information. I don't want to live behind shuttered windows, and to only do cash-in-hand jobs simply to hide from The Man.
[22:25:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 1338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:56] <exec> 08└─Researchers can't help taking a crack at the Drake equation now that we have decent estimates for exoplanet and potentially habitable exoplanet prevalence. Things will get more interesting once we have good imaging of (considered to be) potentially potentially habitable exoplanets. If we see evidenc...
[22:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:29] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to prove the existence of the Christian god using logic?
[22:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South African Bank to Replace 12 Million Cards after Employees Stole Master Key - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:59] <exec> 08└─South Africa was always like that.
[22:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:22] <exec> 08└─James George Frazier [wikipedia.org] disagreed, but then the worshipers of the dead god threatened to deplatform him.
[22:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:23] <exec> 08└─Is scoring points for your team worth more than people's lives now?
[22:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:55] <exec> 08└─Xtra Penguin edition. At that point, the WSL will be running the games using wine, inside windows.
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[23:21:59] <exec> 08└─Peace and long life to all. Turning over a new leaf isn't something people should only consider on New Year's Eve, now is always the best time to do the hard personal work of bringing your own mind to peace. Once you can achieve inner peace you shall more easily view the troubles of the world and ap...
[23:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Roman Iron Age Board Game in Norway - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:01] <exec> 08└─Rome is still there, and all roads still lead to it, so what are you saying, oh atemporal AC? Besides, this is Viking stuff, in what later became Norway, after splitting from the Trӵe Swedish Kingdom.
[23:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life-Saving Coronavirus Drug 'Major Breakthrough' - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:22] <exec> 08└─It's pretty much the same as the infamous "Trump drug". Weakens immune system, used for ages by old folks with arthritis.
[23:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 1870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:17] <exec> 08└─True, but it's not the premiums you should actually be worried about, it's the exclusions. Being in the UK, I don't need health insurance as such (luckily, since I can't get it...) but I do usually need travel insurance. When the travel insurance renewal came through this year (mid lockdown) they of...
[23:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:19] <exec> 08└─It's not mutually exclusive. Idiot.
[23:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:21] <exec> 08└─What you described is really scary.
[23:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:23] <exec> 08└─There's lower overhead with Medicare, but that private insurance overhead also equals oversight, so I think what's being missed is that more unnecessary testing gets done with Medicare since they know they won't get denied. Private insurance companies have a strong incentive to deny claims for bogus...
[23:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:25] <exec> 08└─"Don't you have some anarcho-capitalist cock to suck?" They never stop, that is why they can only communicate via text.
[23:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:28] <exec> 08└─But the US is 40x healthier now compared to 1960.
[23:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:30] <exec> 08└─In order to really decrease the costs, we'll have to socialize the part that keeps jacking up the charges as well, but $12K per person for the group with the highest medical needs on average is actually a savings. People in their 20s and 30s (a group with low medical needs on average) pay nearly tha...
[23:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─The parent post mentioned Chrome OS, which is now collaborating with Parallels to access Windows software. Windows 10S & their Chromium-based browser could indicate a similar trend toward cloud Windows.
[23:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:17] <exec> 08└─Your skills are not up to date. Good luck getting a job these days.
[23:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Kernel Colonel Torvalds Claims 5.8 is 'One of Our Biggest Releases of All Time' - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:19] <exec> 08└─Awww the little incel got triggered by variable name changes, what a poor little racist he is. Everyone gather round, this little buddy needs a big group hug to make him feel safe again. Watch his hands though, he tends to get a bit grabby during any physical contact.
[23:25:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:43] <exec> 08└─At one extreme is the Weak Astrobiological Copernican scenario—such that a planet forms intelligent life sometime after 5 Gyr, but not earlier. The other is the Strong Astrobiological Copernican scenario in which life must form between 4.5 and 5.5 Gyr, as on Earth.
[23:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:22] <exec> 08└─I don't think you know what "anthropocentrism" [wikipedia.org] means. Even without that, your idea still seems weak because we can seemingly only operate within this Universe. Ideas operating outside the scope of the universe would necessarily be pragmatically false or noncognitivistic in nature. Li...
[23:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Estimate there are 36 Intelligent Communicating Civilizations in Our Galaxy - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:23] <exec> 08└─》 Weather predictions and black holes are just like astrology and dowsing Weather predictions are notoriously inaccurate, black holes are an unproven theory, and astrology is for flaky West coast Democrats. I don't see what any of those have to do with the science of water discovery.
[23:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:17] <exec> 08└─It uses hydrogen. As you surmised, the products are deuterium and tritium. Deuterium is everywhere - I drank a few trillion deuterium atoms this morning - and while tritium is not as common, it occurs naturally and is quite safe.
[23:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military is Getting Serious About Nuclear Thermal Propulsion - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:19] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what monitoring potential is like in LEO/NEO... if you drive down the road with a medical imaging isotope in you, there's a fair chance that you'll trip domestic terror sensors and have a nice chat with some gentlemen in dark suits. If a satellite or rocket that was supposed to be purel...
[23:27:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Username [4557] 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:29] <exec> 08└─I remember when Trump says it sounds like a certain drug could save many lives, and the media immediately call it fake just to be contrarians. This lead to papers being invented just to confirm a political bias. Is scoring points for your team worth more than people's lives now? I also recall the me...
[23:27:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 865 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:30] <exec> 08└─If you would simply dedicate a few moments of your time to discovering where in the world HCQ has been used over the last decade or so, which, just to give you a hint, is easily done by obtaining a map of the world's malaria zones, then, pick a country, any country, and drill down on the regions wit...
[23:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:21] <exec> 08└─Odd that you read that as being dismissive of pagans like you're some kind of concern troll who likes to claim he was close to Clinton's inner circle and left in a huff of moral indignation about thos libruls. Face it, Man Jeebus is just yet another dead/dying god and a particularly antisocial one....
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