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[00:21:56] <exec> 08└─We need more slaves not free thinkers.
[00:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:57] <exec> 08└─"I'm an arts graduate and so is the minister for education so I'm not sure you can draw the conclusion that we're completely unemployable,"
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[00:21:59] <exec> 08└─which critics panned as an "ideological assault"
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[00:22:10] <exec> 08└─Demand variability has always been a problem, but how much of the frequency and voltage variability that they are trying to offset is caused by using unstable renewable sources?
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[01:21:55] <exec> 08└─Erm, free thinking has been verboten in humanities departments for at least a decade. Have at this... [areomagazine.com] Our current crisis is not one of Left versus Right but of consistency, reason, humility and universal liberalism versus inconsistency, irrationalism, zealous certainty and tribal...
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[01:21:57] <exec> 08└─They end up at starbucks, anyways. Do they think this will somehow magically produce more engineers, scientists, plumbers, electricians? In that penal colony gene pool?
[01:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:59] <exec> 08└─Gender studies graduates have been a problem ever since they shut down state-run mental hospitals in the fifties.
[01:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:01] <exec> 08└─But maybe at least they will pull the ripcord and not end up with as much debt?
[01:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:03] <exec> 08└─Australia needs to emulate California by restarting affirmative action. 15% of all medical doctors should be of aboriginal descent and the only way to do that is to make room for them in schools. #ALM
[01:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:06] <exec> 08└─"If you are wanting to do philosophy, which will be great for your critical thinking, also think about doing IT," Tehan said.
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[01:22:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, but hackers with a strong sense of ethics.
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[01:22:10] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This is consistent with the right's attack on education all around the world. The right wants wage slaves to act as cogs in their enterprises. The right fears a population that can think for itself. E.g., The far right in Texas outlawed teaching of critical thinking in schools: https://www....
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[01:22:12] <exec> 08└─Nope. Moral nihilism is the philosophy that nothing is morally right or wrong. Ask not whether it is right or wrong; ask whether it is possible. Can it be hacked? If so, it's gonna be hacked.
[01:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This is consistent with the right's attack on education all around the world.
[01:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:17] <exec> 08└─Your IPA money laundering cult decimated the IT sector by inventing an imaginary skills crisis whereby it was cheaper to hire foreign employees from labour hire firms on dodgy 457 residency visa scams than train graduates. Now you want us to study IT where 4/5 applicants for a programming job are in...
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[01:22:19] <exec> 08└─What good are free thinkers when they don't even have a basic understanding of how the world works. Shouldn't you actually try to understand how the world works with science instead of believing in some old superstitious humanities sermon? It's time to leave Plato's cave whether you want it or not....
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[01:22:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is correct. More STEM grads is only a good thing when your country hires them instead of bringing insectoid Chinks and stinky Poo-Poo Pajeets. Kicking out the Chinks and Pajeets would be a godsend to domestic STEM grads. But what greedy Jewish globalists running the tech industry want, is...
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[01:22:33] <exec> 08└─I got the impression that it's the quantity of wind turbines -- add a few turbines to a "traditionally-stabilized" grid and not much happens. Add hundreds or thousands of simple wind turbines[*] and then there is a problem. Paper discusses (I think) an electronically regulated turbine with an invert...
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[01:23:39] <exec> 08└─I was SCUBA diving near a harbor, and the motor noise was really loud. As if the motors were right next to me and all around me loud. Even worse, the visibility was zero, so we were doing a descent following a yellow rope down with our hands. I can only imagine how bad it must be for a whale. I didn...
[01:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:55] <exec> 08└─https://scienceofparkinsons.com/2017/12/16/paq/#more-48745 [scienceofparkinsons.com] But the investigators also found that all of the atypical Parkinsonisms cases regularly consumed Soursop fruit, and 24 of them (out of the 30) frequently drank tea made from the fruit.
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[01:24:53] <exec> 08└─Now we know where Little Bobby Tables' mom works.
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[02:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:12] <exec> 08└─They end up earning a living at Starbucks but they moonlight as app developers making the next Sheep Shagger game.
[02:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:14] <exec> 08└─Now you want us to study IT where 4/5 applicants for a programming job are internationals rather than home grown talent? They don't care what you do. They just want to win another election.
[02:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, an ignorant flag waver speaks up. Here is a short history lesson for you, if you can put down the flag for a few seconds. Those statues were put in place during the nadir of race relations in the South, many decades after the civil war as emblems of white racism in the South. https://en.wikipedi...
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[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─Publicly claim there are only two sexes, women and men are not physically equal, and feelings never override facts, and you'll find out how free thinking your free-thinkers really are.
[02:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:20] <exec> 08└─Affirmative action? Yes, let's keep telling entire groups of people that the only reason that they fail is because of who they are. You didn't make the team-not because you every one that did was better than you, it's just because you are aboriginal. You only got 78% on your report-not because the r...
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:22] <exec> 08└─What good are scientists who can't relate to society's moral/ethics/culture? Point: it's not an either/or, need to have both types of education (which may be different from schooling).
[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:24] <exec> 08└─When BLM call for STEM to be shut down
[02:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─The extra genders only exist in your paranoid delusions and confused feelings. You're trying to institutionalize violence against all women. Your kind demands from all women, "papieren bitte." At gunpoint where you've passed bathroom laws. Those are the facts.
[02:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─Force philosophers to study IT and you're gonna get hackers. ... Moral nihilism is the philosophy that nothing is morally right or wrong.
[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─Ah, an ignorant flag waver speaks up.
[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─Also, note how they give the new cost of a humanities degree while carefully avoiding giving the cost of the degrees they're comparing it to: Under the proposal—which critics panned as an "ideological assault"—the cost of degrees like history or cultural studies will rise up to 113 percent to ar...
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─"I'm an arts graduate and so is the minister for education so I'm not sure you can draw the conclusion that we're completely unemployable,"
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─Web site [shutdownstem.com] & Bret Weinstein discussion [youtu.be]
[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─No, but it will drive down wages. They want to pay you tech incels minimum wage to make them cool toys and dance like a monkey. Who's going to stop them? A professional association? Naah, we're all John Galts. We're clearly better off without organizing.
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[02:22:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, cum now! Free thinking is not the same thing as the right to be a stupid conservative right-wing nut-job, because that is the opposite of thinking, and you are confusing having an opinion with the the process of forming a rational, reality based, scientifically sound and progressive opinion. Su...
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[02:22:44] <exec> 08└─They'll call for it eventually after they're done with the following: political opponents police free speech human rights for non POC (except in China) statues history capitalism theistic religions (except islam)
[02:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:46] <exec> 08└─This is all janrinok's fault, as he has often admitted. Too back that while Humanities can comprehend STEM, STEM cannot comprehend the Humanities. Or Ethics. Or Aesthetics. Or even Beauty. More machine than man, by now, Darth Janirok!!
[02:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:49] <exec> 08└─They tried that bollocks here and it backfired badly and quite predictably: If you're $ethnic you need a B- to get into med school, if you're not you need an A+. So a pile of people who could never make it through med school were admitted based solely on their race and promptly failed the course, le...
[02:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:51] <exec> 08└─Wait, they vandalised a statue of the author of Don Quixote? Who could be offended by a 17th century pisstake?
[02:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─Can it be hacked? If so, it's gonna be hacked.
[02:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:25] <exec> 08└─It's possible, impossible, and could be both!
[02:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:27] <exec> 08└─It's possible in the real world as well, the USPTO has issued numerous patents for it, e.g. Full Body Teleportation System [google.com], "A pulsed gravitational wave wormhole generator system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another".
[02:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:16] <exec> 08└─Electric is great for the home gardener. But for pros and people on a ton of land, it's much quicker to gas it up and keep going.
[02:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:17] <exec> 08└─Damn props sound like a buzz saw. I've had them come close when diving, maybe 100 yards, and it's loud as hell. Can't imagine it being right over you.
[02:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loneliness Alters Your Brain's Social Network - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:48] <exec> 08└─I do not tolerate stupidity, and especially willful ignorance! I do not abide the "not too bright", the Trump supporters, the jocks and the Republican politicians from Texas. If such are alienated by my critiques, and driven away from this site, we are all better off. Echo chamber? If we allow thos...
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[02:28:49] <exec> 08└─His first language is Samian Greek, so you have to give him a break as a non-native speaker. And I suspect he is competent in more languages than you know exist, if you are the typical ignorant American.
[02:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Reasonable are 80-Character Lines in 2020? - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:55] <exec> 08└─If you like your commas aligned so much, put them in front. -ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *file, const void *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos) +ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *file + ,const void *buffer + ,size_t count + ,loff_t *position +...
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[02:31:56] <exec> 08└─And it could even work for the same individuals with different preferences depending on whether they're viewing the code on their phone or viewing the code on wide screen monitors.
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[02:31:59] <exec> 08└─See also: http://www.ariel.com.au [ariel.com.au]
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[03:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06RIP David Perlman, the Dean of American Science Writing - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:52] <exec> 08└─" He was born during the 1918 flu pandemic and died in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. "
[03:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP David Perlman, the Dean of American Science Writing - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:54] <exec> 08└─For example we still have https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] but he may be part of a dying breed of "explainers" that really report on things, dig hard to get to the underlying facts.
[03:22:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:02] <exec> 08└─We need more slaves not free thinkers.
[03:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:38] <exec> 08└─Web site
[03:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─Cops running around claiming to be "antifa." Remember the Reichstag fire in 1933.
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─They'll call for it eventually
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[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─No, more like hackers with the training to rationalize, to confound their adversaries with their forked tongued gibberish, and conquer the world!
[03:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─What good are humanities graduates who can't relate to society's moral/ethics/culture? None of them today have delved at all into the Western canon, or any canon. They have never read Marx, or Adam Smith, or Kant, or Weber, or any of the great books. For them it's all cliff's notes with brownie poin...
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[03:22:48] <exec> 08└─OK so the budding philosopher of incorruptible pure pureness wants to live a bohemian lifestyle of contemplation but no, the philosophy student is forced to study IT. The machine is totally amoral which requires black and white thinking. It can't be reasoned with or persuaded to work. The machine mu...
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[03:22:51] <exec> 08└─Absolutely you can! How many times have I heard, "Oh no. I directed compiler output into the source file. And I don't have a backup. And the assignment is due at midnight."
[03:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─What good are humanities graduates who can't relate to society's moral/ethics/culture?
[03:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:55] <exec> 08└─Makes a good literature, your piece. Fails to demonstrate that's an absolute necessary course of action but ends in categorically blaming the government. Are you sure you aren't missing some critical thinking education? If not, maybe you should work a bit harder to accomplish that agenda of yours.
[03:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, do they follow Sartre, or Rawls?
[03:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:59] <exec> 08└─There's a #shutdownstem with lots of links to things like https://grist.org [grist.org] that call out to BLM. No idea how recent it all is, but opportunistically linking [your cause here] to BLM is certainly a thing....
[03:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:01] <exec> 08└─who was himself a former slave.
[03:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:03] <exec> 08└─Nah, Humanities cannot comprehend STEM. It involves math. Of all the flavors only the economists learned that is their kryptonite, so they learned to write their philosophies in formulae and went on to conquer the world. Their colleagues in anthropology and philosophy deeply resent them for it and n...
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[03:23:06] <exec> 08└─Seems like the equivalent of a strike rather than a call to shutdown STEM for good - the later would not make sense coming from researchers.
[03:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─Cretins who do not even understand that the gadgets they play with are not some kind of wild fruit, are exactly the problem the humanities "education" created. Scientists need the society much less than the society needs scientists, but NEITHER need parasiting humanities students.
[03:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, they may follow both or none.
[03:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:12] <exec> 08└─A exceptionally categorical claim that one. I think it requires proof.
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:14] <exec> 08└─That is the website dude, prefer an article? [theenergymix.com] If you want a direct citation, go search twitter to find the BLM activists promoting it. And are you really claiming Weinstein doesn't know what he's talking about or that Stalinesque, racial student quotas and anti-science are mutually...
[03:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:48] <exec> 08└─Communication above light speed is still not possible.
[03:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:08] <exec> 08└─..."If you put a magnifying glass in front of your WiFI router, it doesn't start melting anything."
[03:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:42] <exec> 08└─It's not just whales, all swimmers are upset by loud boats nearby. Also, it's not polite to call them whales, call them BBWs.
[03:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:48] <exec> 08└─Wow, somebody really trying to score me high :) Let me remind you how we got ground oil economy. Simple - we killed all the whales who used to provide all the oil. Nothing much changed since then. What about brick and concrete housing? We cut all the trees. This is the story of capitalism. No busine...
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[03:28:19] <exec> 08└─Evil is just a matter of perspective. It's all subjective, so arguing as if these are concrete terms is unproductive. I've met people who think owning animals is evil, so are Greenpeace terrorists or freedom fighters? Why did Afghanis keep joining Al Qaeda until we finally gave up and surrendered th...
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[04:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP David Perlman, the Dean of American Science Writing - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:56] <exec> 08└─He was great in Hellboy and Sons of Anarchy.
[04:22:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, but hackers with a strong sense of ethics.
[04:22:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:28] <exec> 08└─When BLM call for STEM to be shut down
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. That's like saying matter and anti-matter get along just fine in the same space.
[04:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:03] <exec> 08└─Here you are. [bbc.com]
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─Math is racist. STEM is basically Nazism. We need free thinkers that can't add two and two or understand basic logic. Who needs nurses when we can have experts in gender studies? https://money.cnn.com [cnn.com] https://www.chicagotribune.c...
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:07] <exec> 08└─And that's where it's heading again.
[04:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:09] <exec> 08└─Nah, Humanities cannot comprehend STEM.
[04:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:11] <exec> 08└─That's like saying matter and anti-matter get along just fine in the same space.
[04:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:13] <exec> 08└─That isn't what people mean when they tell Antifa to Lubbe up.
[04:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:15] <exec> 08└─Hehehe, agenda. I don't have an agenda. But I sure know how technology can be a deep dark rabbit hole full of rabid rabbits and hopeless disillusionment that creative philosopher poets might could want to avoid if they don't want to become ever so cynical.
[04:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:18] <exec> 08└─"History and Philosophy of Science" was a unit, and is now available as a Major [sydney.edu.au] at at least one Australian university. Perhaps what is missing from both the debate external to universities, and the teaching within is perspective and an appreciation of the 'other'.. It should also be...
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[04:23:20] <exec> 08└─Kant says I can be as categorical as I want.
[04:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:22] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Liberals betrayed the liberal idea in general and all of us in particular.
[04:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:24] <exec> 08└─That is the website dude, prefer an article?
[04:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:26] <exec> 08└─Sheep shagging is no game, Downunder. It is definitely a matter of life and death. Because otherwise, it'd be a 'roo.
[04:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:29] <exec> 08└─>> the right has attacked education throughout the world. >[citations needed] Ummmm.... See the article that you are commenting on? And, the post earlier in this thread that provides a link to the Texas Republican (far-right) law against teaching critical thinking in Texas public schools. A proper...
[04:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:31] <exec> 08└─I don't require proof. Kant says I can be as categorical as I want.
[04:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:33] <exec> 08└─creative philosopher poets might could want to avoid if they don't want to become ever so cynical.
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[04:23:35] <exec> 08└─Floyd's death happened in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a state so far north, any farther north is Canada. If racism was involved, it was NORTHERN racism, and the mob should have toppled statues of UNION soldiers. But... the South is racist and the Confederacy is EVIL, let's march on the South! Stupid fuc...
[04:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, they are desirable in general at least in investment business as most other graduates can't write and many can't even talk on the required level. The problem is they are so fucked up with strange ideas that managers are reluctant to train them. https://finance.yahoo.com
[04:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:39] <exec> 08└─nothing wrong with cynicism.
[04:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:41] <exec> 08└─You can lead a philosopher to IT, but you cannot make him fail to recognize the insipid nature of a technology with no porpoise. We have people doing all those very nice frequency charts of terms, as if they meant something. We have studies of "likes" and the Argumentum ad Populam, forgetting that i...
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[04:23:44] <exec> 08└─Because is inconceivable that, for example, a human brain can be educated to speak and think in two languages.
[04:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:46] <exec> 08└─And slippery slopes.
[04:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:48] <exec> 08└─the more popular courses (often/usually, the ones that lead to more lucrative employment) are more expensive than the less popular courses.
[04:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:50] <exec> 08└─Math IS in the humanities. God knows engineers cannot do math correctly. Or creatively. Or even competent applications thereof. Do you even know who I am? Do you know of Pythagoras, my fellow Samian? Have you not heard of Descartes, he of the coordinates? Not to mention, Proclus, Kurt Friedrich Göd...
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[04:23:52] <exec> 08└─OK so the budding philosopher of incorruptible pure pureness wants to live a bohemian lifestyle of contemplation but no, the philosophy student is forced to study IT....
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[04:28:16] <exec> 08└─Yep. America got totally invaded by foreign speakers. Its real languages has been mostly lost. This is totally evil. All speakers of English, Spanish, French etc don't belong there. They should return whence they came. And we should stop further immigration. If you want to stay you need to learn Ame...
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[05:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:00] <exec> 08└─Put up infrared solar shades at the Sun Earth L1 orbit. Nothing else will work. Every human could die from some horrible pandemic and the planet will still get warmer. Anything else is just slightly delaying the inevitable. The Sun will keep getting hotter as Hydrogen fuses into Helium.
[05:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:01] <exec> 08└─I wonder how the earth survived at all when oxygen was basically a waste gas.
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[05:22:29] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This is consistent with the right's attack on education all around the world. The right wants wage slaves to act as cogs in their enterprises. The right fears a population that can think for itself. E.g., The far right in Texas outlawed teaching of critical thinking in schools: https://www....
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[05:22:40] <exec> 08└─What good are scientists who can't relate to society's moral/ethics/culture? Point: it's not an either/or, need to have both types of education (which may be different from schooling).
[05:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:40] <exec> 08└─To answer your question, postmodern science would eventually come to this: From https://www.concordia.ca [concordia.ca] : "3 Concordia researchers collaborate to engage Indigenous...
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[05:23:41] <exec> 08└─Math IS in the humanities.
[05:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:43] <exec> 08└─If racism was involved, it was NORTHERN racism, and the mob should have toppled statues of UNION soldiers.
[05:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:46] <exec> 08└─What good are scientists who can't relate to society's moral/ethics/culture?
[05:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:48] <exec> 08└─And you believe this is incorrect, why? Point made. We are coming for you, incel, with only one of two genders.
[05:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:50] <exec> 08└─That's because the real enemy is much broader than some old Confederate soldiers from over 150 years ago. The real enemy was always the entire white race, particularly males, that ruled before year zero of the present Communist Revolution.
[05:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:52] <exec> 08└─I swear, it is like Nazi science, when they held the 1936 Olympic Games to prove scientifically Teutonic superiority. And Jesse Owens, American, handed them their asses. Black Lives Matter, in American anti-Fascist history. Now please take your "two genders" crap and stuff it up your unscientific as...
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[05:23:54] <exec> 08└─The Leftist humanities majors lack the IQ to understand and do math. It is objectively that simple. Their forte is reading and writing stories. You know, made up tales.
[05:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:56] <exec> 08└─...No one wants to be a teacher or a nurse, so they are cheap(er) courses.
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[05:23:59] <exec> 08└─No, but it will drive down wages. They want to pay you tech incels minimum wage to make them cool toys and dance like a monkey. Who's going to stop them? A professional association?...
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[05:24:01] <exec> 08└─For them it's all cliff's notes with brownie points for parroting the professor's talking points.
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[05:24:03] <exec> 08└─The topic of this thread is a sentence I read in a bathroom stall as a philosophy student. I'm a comp sci/philosophy grad. I thought it was quite clever at the time and even in hind sight it somewhat emphasizes what philosophy is about. A repeated notion is that social sciences drive people to devel...
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[05:24:05] <exec> 08└─Haha! Force philosophers to study IT and you're gonna get hackers.
[05:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:07] <exec> 08└─And what do you think math is? Euclid: Axiom: assume a straight line is the shortest distance between two points. Me: Cool story, bro! (to AC, you are an idiot, the shortest distance between two neurons.)
[05:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:09] <exec> 08└─You don't find the notion of free thinkers to be somewhat trivially existentially disproven? Let's take a recent graduate of gender studies or racial studies in the US. Exactly how much diversity of view do you think there will be? Or in our brave new world, do we categorize "free thinkers" to be th...
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[05:24:12] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the Teutonic superiority has always been intellectual rather than physical, as evidenced by how America and the Soviet Union divided the scientists of defeated Germany amongst themselves after the war. Jesse could run, but he could never design a rocket.
[05:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:14] <exec> 08└─Math IS in the humanities...
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[05:24:16] <exec> 08└─I rest my case with your post. Q.E.D.
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:18] <exec> 08└─Or as I used to say about those folks while I was attending university: "I'm a nonconformist, and so are all my friends."
[05:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's that I've used too many good weedeaters but I just can't think of battery operated ones anything but toys. Yeah, technically you could trim up around a small lawn if you always got to it right away. I gave one a go here in TN when we first arrived though and had to stop and charge in the...
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[05:25:46] <exec> 08└─Rather just outlaw assholes who think anything they dislike should be illegal.
[05:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:49] <exec> 08└─"Great"? Nah. Barely passable if you don't have much yard to do and trim so often that you're barely doing any trimming. Or if you're a little old lady who can't afford to pay a neighborhood kid to do it for you and can't wag a real one around long enough to get the job done.
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[06:23:47] <exec> 08└─Phoenix666, through his many posts, has shown himself to be a free thinker -- "his own man." Sometimes he expresses opinions that favor the right, and sometimes the left, owing allegiance to no one. He usually gives a good explanation as to his reasoning which includes a fair amount of empiricism. I...
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[07:21:54] <exec> 08└─If the ash plume only reached 6 km high, it almost certainly did not reach beyond the troposphere. It's not clear if the 6 km is the extent of the plume above the almost 3 km height of the volcano. Even so, 9 km is generally below the tropopause, especially in tropical regions. For comparison, Mt. S...
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[07:22:04] <exec> 08└─Let's leave the entire global warming discussion to one side, and just look at this: weeks of work to cover old snow and prevent it from melting. Why? This may make a little bit of sense, if they are trying to preserve the glacier as a local tourist attraction. From any other perspective, it's prett...
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[07:22:06] <exec> 08└─Let's leave the entire global warming discussion to one side
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[07:24:37] <exec> 08└─Physicist here. There's nothing new in terms of fundamental understanding of entanglement here. We now can do it in yet another system. Basically, we have another tool in our quantum technology toolbox. Also, I wish journalists would stop speaking about Star Trek transporters when talking about quan...
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[07:27:23] <exec> 08└─In case you or anyone else doesn't already know Arthur T Knackerbracket and upstart are bots.
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[08:22:06] <exec> 08└─The Earth is an eight thousand mile diameter rock with a metal core. It doesn't give a shit whether its surface temperature is -200 or +2000 degrees.
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[08:22:41] <exec> 08└─Ah, an ignorant flag waver speaks up. Here is a short history lesson for you, if you can put down the flag for a few seconds. Those statues were put in place during the nadir of race relations in the South, many decades after the civil war as emblems of white racism in the South. https://en.wikipedi...
[08:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:13] <exec> 08└─Seems like the equivalent of a strike rather than a call to shutdown STEM for good - the later would not make sense coming from researchers.
[08:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:56] <exec> 08└─SpaceX Gen2 Starlink sats will include power beaming to receivers on new unlimited range Teslas. The side bonus is the anti-riot microwave orbital Tesla defense system, a must for urban drivers...
[08:27:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 1630 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:40] <exec> 08└─Huh, it's almost as if being classified as evil has something to do with what you do almost as much as why you do it. Did your party slay the goblins because the goblins were planning on slaughtering villagers, or did the party slay them because they saw the goblins as loot containers and XP? When y...
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[09:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:15] <exec> 08└─For those who don't understand what's going on, this "converation effort" is to keep the glaciers in as premium as possible condition for skiers. If you want something to happen, attach a financial incentive to it. Same reason I think the solution to global warming, if such a solution is ever necess...
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[09:22:17] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure he was being snarky, emphasizing that life goes on (or emerges) regardless. If the dinos had managed to develop a way to deal with asteroids (or gamma ray bursts as it may be) we probably wouldn't exist today.
[09:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:08] <exec> 08└─Actually... Microwaves use 2.4 G... That's why that range of spectrum is unlicensed.
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[10:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:46] <exec> 08└─Sheriff, I challenge you, Sir! Draw! Draw your ventilator! You yellow-bellied sap-sucking poutroon of a man! Coward and Trump supporter! Are you actually so dumb, as to let yourself die? Die, Sheriff, die like the scum that you are, since you could not out-draw me, and I got your ventilator! Ha, ah...
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[10:21:48] <exec> 08└─Come on, to be fair, you have to congratulate him. It can not be often an Arizona sheriff passes any kind of test.
[10:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:50] <exec> 08└─Sea title. With a porpoise (grin) --- (Pinal County Sheriff Office [pinalcountyaz.gov] only promotes Public Safety, it doesn't enforces it - VERY LARGE GRIN)
[10:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:10] <exec> 08└─when oxygen was a waste gas I guess the temperature at the surface was neither 2000 nor -200 (nor anything in between, because the temperature measurement needs a unit...).
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[10:22:12] <exec> 08└─As you said, tourist attraction, cool the region off and so make the ski lines open longer, provide a constant flow of potable water all year (ie: instead of no water in summer), block stone avalanches (if permanent ice, they are glued by ice, if constant icing/defrost, more rocks will crack and fal...
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[11:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:53] <exec> 08└─Something to be explained to the knowall Millenials. Old geezers who bucked fetta? Not so much. Maaaybe to Runaway, but he's running linux, so slim chances that even he can derive a benefit from TFA. Seriously, eds, by triviality this story is an open invitation to GNAA comments.
[11:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:04] <exec> 08└─Let's see... + contact with many of the people at his AZ campaign event + people on his flights to and from Washington including airport staff + people (with possible exception of the labs that tested him for CV) he met in Washington + his family (I wonder if he has any elderly or other compromised...
[11:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:27] <exec> 08└─If you want something to happen, attach a financial incentive to it.
[11:23:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:12] <exec> 08└─"I'm an arts graduate and so is the minister for education so I'm not sure you can draw the conclusion that we're completely unemployable,"
[11:23:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:23] <exec> 08└─Cops running around claiming to be "antifa." Remember the Reichstag fire in 1933.
[11:23:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:38] <exec> 08└─A exceptionally categorical claim that one. I think it requires proof.
[11:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:00] <exec> 08└─Is it possible to entangle electron and positron, such as in, for example, common positronium?
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[12:22:08] <exec> 08└─These have been around for a long time. For example say you're locked up in Alcatraz and you want to communicate with the guy in the cell next to you. So you're sitting there on your bed staring at the metal water pipe running from your cell into his when suddenly you leap up and hear the bedsprings...
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[12:22:19] <exec> 08└─Certainly looks like a super spreader to me. What are the chances his phone had a contact tracing app?
[12:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:21] <exec> 08└─Brave man, serving his country, catches a deadly disease and survived with hardly any symptoms. He's practically Rambo. Why would you ask this hero to hide his face in public? /s
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[12:22:23] <exec> 08└─syntax alert...
[12:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:47] <exec> 08└─This may make a little bit of sense, if they are trying to preserve the glacier as a local tourist attraction.
[12:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:48] <exec> 08└─Solutions having problems is hardly some new thing. Why did we start the massive harvesting of fossil fuels? Because people were tired of getting around on horses and foot and everybody wanted one of those shiny new horseless carriages for themselves. And so businesses emerged to provide something p...
[12:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:22] <exec> 08└─the hole made of electrons will be negatively charged, while the hole made of positrons will be positively charged
[12:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create a New Class of Rate-Sensitive Mechanical Metamaterials - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:04] <exec> 08└─If you make a thick corn starch and water slurry, you can slowly press your finger into it with ease. If you try to poke it fast, you're liable to break your finger! Corn starch is rheological and exhibits shear thickening [arxiv.org].
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[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─He's practically Rambo. Why would you ask this hero to hide his face in public?
[13:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─+ contact with many of the people at his AZ campaign event + people on his flights to and from Washington including airport staff + people (with possible exception of the labs that tested him for CV) he met in Washington + his family (I wonder if he has any elderly or other compromised relatives) +...
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:21] <exec> 08└─Yes its like all thge footballers testing positive None of them had a clue they had it and the questionn asked after is which game will they be fit for not if they will survive.
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[13:25:38] <exec> 08└─Yup, microwaves (the ovens) flood that spectrum to the point that they figured it didn't make sense to use, to they left it unlicensed. Now, most electronics communicate (at least partially) in that spectrum specifically because it is unlicensed (and indirectly, because it is a terrible spectrum for...
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[14:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ealbers [5715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:02] <exec> 08└─I mean I remember trying to build this... http://cyberneticzoo.com [cyberneticzoo.com]
[14:22:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:18] <exec> 08└─Come on, to be fair, you have to congratulate him. It can not be often an Arizona sheriff passes any kind of test.
[14:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:27] <exec> 08└─We were all told in February/March to "STOP WEARING MASKS!!" and that they didn't work/only sick people needed them. This was loudly proclaimed by the media at the time. So what is the advice now? Do masks actually work? What's next, will HCQ work as well? Where are we we supposed to be getting advi...
[14:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─Since many of us know that the cold or flu can kill, we know it is irrational to go and order a coffin when one gets sick. Especially if someone is a 30 year old professional athlete.
[14:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─People more important than you need the masks. You shouldn't wear them so people better than you don't face a shortage. There is your translation. (more seriously - it's been admitted that the 'no mask' guidance's purpose was to preserve masks for healthcare workers directly exposed, as we're even m...
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[14:22:34] <exec> 08└─I want follow up. If he doesn't win the lottery and have a mild case, then he's going to have a rough several months and possibly years long recovery. I want to see if he sings a different tune then.
[14:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:36] <exec> 08└─"STOP WEARING MASKS!!"
[14:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─You're supposed to be like good sheep and do what the people with money want you to do. The media are much more consistent than the doctors. Every doctor has their own opinion, but the media will never push HCQ because Trump mentioned it, and the ultimate goal is to remove Trump. Their horse is Remd...
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─Here in Europe we're entering "hay fever" season and you'll see a lot more people sneezing and coughing. If they happen to have COVID19 but are not displaying any symptoms then it's a good idea to keep those coughs and sneezes (and associated droplets) contained in a mask. No, it won't block the vir...
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia's Mt Merapi Erupts, Spewing Ash 6 Km High - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─When I was in Jogja, I travelled out to the countryside around Mt Merapi. It had erupted a few months back. Whole fields were covered in ash like 50 cm deep, and people were coming in pickup trucks and loading up bags of the ash. I don't remember anyone weighing bags and taking cash, I guess farmers...
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[14:23:08] <exec> 08└─How right you are! https://memory-alpha.fandom.com(episode) [fandom.com]
[14:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New System Uses Wind Turbines to Defend the National Grid From Power Cut - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:19] <exec> 08└─Yup, overall, they don't care if it is exactly 50Hz all that much, if it drops to 49 or jumps to 52 it is fine, as long as they can get the average to be 50 (so the clocks are unaffected over the long haul).
[14:25:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:41] <exec> 08└─Physicist here. There's nothing new in terms of fundamental understanding of entanglement here. We now can do it in yet another system. Basically, we have another tool in our quantum technology toolbox. Also, I wish journalists would stop speaking about Star Trek transporters when talking about quan...
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[15:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:01] <exec> 08└─>Logic gates built with the minimum number of transistors are barely digital at all: they may be better understood as analog amplifier circuits that happen to be amplifying digital signals. You mean, just like every logic gate in every IC in the world? Logic gates, like the transistors they're made...
[15:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:02] <exec> 08└─Relays are (and were) rarely used for computational purposes since they are extremely slow and power-hungry. And loud. Once vacuum tubes were invented they were superior in almost every way. And of course transistors were another big leap forward beyond those.
[15:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:04] <exec> 08└─Predating logic chips, logical design can be done with diodes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_logic [wikipedia.org]).
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─To be fair a lot of news stories "simplified" it to "don't wear masks" or "don't use masks". I couldn't always determine what the original story was, but the intended advice referred to the N95 masks. That got lost in most of the reported news stories.
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─Did he study for it?
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[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─This was loudly proclaimed by the media at the time.
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─From a Darwinian perspective, coronavirus confers a competitive advantage to individuals like this sheriff, who can behave normally when infected while others are driven into hiding in fear.
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─Masks are not over rated...if you read what experts have been saying.... multi layered cloth mask reduces the risk of spreading from a contaminated person ...barely reduces the risk of catching it Aerosol spread is the major form of transmission...touching surfaces and objects not so much. So be pat...
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[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─Serve to infect.
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[15:26:07] <exec> 08└─I agree, technology is pretty scary. Best leave these things to Elon Musk.
[15:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah - you nailed it. But, you failed to spell out that whales depend on their hearing for communications over miles and miles of ocean. Aside from communications with their own species, they certainly listen for the sounds their prey makes, as well as the sounds that potential predators make. And,...
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[15:26:45] <exec> 08└─> Batteries will never achieve the power density of ICE Don't be so sure. Aluminum, boron, beryllium, and even graphite have a higher density than diesel. We just haven't managed to integrate them into an effective battery chemistry yet. And of course there's fuel cells, which are essentially a batt...
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[16:22:00] <exec> 08└─It flies like insects, so maybe it can see like insects, like bees seeing UV.
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─purple...it's the only non spectral color humans see.
[16:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:04] <exec> 08└─No you're right, and the article is wrong. Brown is indeed another non spectral color that humans can see. When orange becomes dark enough, our brain switches mode and sees it as brown. That is the only spectral color for which our brain does that. Our vision evolved this way probably because brown...
[16:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:14] <exec> 08└─Real men built control circuits using mag amps. All the cool devices [wikipedia.org] used mag amp control circuitry.
[16:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:16] <exec> 08└─If you need more speed, then it may make sense to use FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays)
[16:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:18] <exec> 08└─I like the fluid logic systems, myself.
[16:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:20] <exec> 08└─I remember building one with around 8 logic ic's, some extra smaller nand(?) gates, a timer, a row of 7-segment leds, and a long extension cord the first time I plugged it in. All that shit can be packed in a pinhead size now.
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:22] <exec> 08└─Digital is just a special case of Analog, full stop. (and another phase from the days of "relays" giving a digital performance!) 100Mb Ethernet (digital) is actually just a 200Mhz wire (analog), that someone said the rule to translate is... Even the simplest gate in the most complete CPIU is just an...
[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─Information gained in this way has been a rich source of information and inspiration through the ages. "Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me, twice on the pipe, if the answer is no. . ."
[16:22:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─Sea title. With a porpoise (grin) --- (Pinal County Sheriff Office [pinalcountyaz.gov] only promotes Public Safety, it doesn't enforces it - VERY LARGE GRIN)
[16:23:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tizan [3245] 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─Masks are not over rated...if you read what experts have been saying.... multi layered cloth mask reduces the risk of spreading from a contaminated person ...barely reduces the risk of catching it Aerosol spread is the major form of transmission...touching surfaces and objects not so much. So be pat...
[16:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's exactly it, and I'm not sure why people know who won the 1997 Super Bowl, but they can't get simple things right like why people need to wear masks out in public. Yesterday I listened to an interview / presentation by a major university hospital's professor / epidemiologist / bio-statist...
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─Don't remind me. I've been thankful for the mask, as it reduces my allergies significantly. - someone at a similar latitude
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─That remains to be seen. Where are fertile women lining up to have his babies?
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─We're still learning- the whole world- medical, govt., everyone.
[16:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, if everyone wore a mask...
[16:24:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─Also, note how they give the new cost of a humanities degree while carefully avoiding giving the cost of the degrees they're comparing it to: Under the proposal—which critics panned as an "ideological assault"—the cost of degrees like history or cultural studies will rise up to 113 percent to ar...
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[17:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:06] <exec> 08└─When orange becomes dark enough, our brain switches mode and sees it as brown.
[17:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:07] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, our brains only "switch modes" if they have been taught that brown is a separate color. Several languages do not have a separate name for that color, and people that speak that language will not have their brains, "switch modes." Color is an abstraction, while it can be described...
[17:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:09] <exec> 08└─I'll bet I saw colors of sound in the 1970's after taking 4 tabs of Orange Sunshine at a concert, that I defy hummingbirds to imagine!
[17:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─It always happens around red though. And my wife ignores me (yay!). Can't figure that out.
[17:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:14] <exec> 08└─On top of each was a special LED light containing UV, blue, red, and green LEDs behind a diffuser,
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─Brown is indeed another non spectral color that humans can see.
[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:18] <exec> 08└─If they included a UV LED, why not an IR LED?
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─Digital is just a special case of Analog
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─I think the poker-tell analogy is not bad. It seems to blur the definition in TFS later on, though. This would be my definition: A proper exploit is from the inside, i.e. running software on the computer (you have to get there via the network cable). A side-channel exploit is from the outside (you h...
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 3490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─If Intel tries to say that they couldn't have anticipated these kind of attacks on their processors... BULLSHIT! At my job at the time, I had a regular invitation to the Intel Developer Conference (I might be mangling the name of the conference as it was over 10 years ago) and the combination of the...
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─I only pay a cursory amount of time on these stories, but the ones I recall all pretty much require the conditions to be very very restricted. You basically need to be within a few centimeters of the computer or something like that, and that these attacks "work" in the literal sense, but in a practi...
[17:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─it's funny how "computer security" gives "plausible deniabilty" to telepathy. before computers it was pretty obvious when someone was mind reading and the "psycorps" had to be careful. today (and in the future) however, the question "how did you know?" is answered with simple "the computer told me"...
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─Disclaimers: I
[17:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:28] <exec> 08└─It is a GOOD thing that experts and authorities change direction at times, when backed by facts and evidence. Government policy backed by science is a GOOD thing. Policy backed by wishful thinking and ideology is not. The only "constant" of the universe is that Things Change (AKA entropy). There is...
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─Not quite. His body's immune reaction to the virus is his Darwinian competitive advantage, in that he did not develop life-threatening complications and die. The same immune response was also a Darwinian advantage for the virus itself, giving the virus a much easier time to spread. Had he had worse...
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely right, it is perfectly fine to have massive group sex with grease covered cell phones used as anal inserts as long as everyone wears a mask!
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─It's only necessary that he comes out financially ahead as compared to others. This itself is one of the oldest predictors of reproductive success.
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─consequences we can't yet divine
[17:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─best of all possible worlds.... And we still have to argue with people who say the climate is not changing. And if it is changing then it the 10 bajillion tons of things humans have put into the atmosphere are totally, totally irrelevant. I mean wow if you are one of those people. Just writing this...
[17:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─Don't forget short term profits are often long enough for single human lifetimes. Especially if not making enough money reduces your life expectancy significantly. The dinosaurs were doing quite well when the Earth was warmer. So there should be no worries about life on Earth. With 7 billion plus hu...
[17:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:42] <exec> 08└─in a three phase poly system there are 3 phases (duh) and a neutral. the voltage across one phase and the neutral is, say, 230 volts and between two phases it's 380 volts. somewhere in the system the neutrals comeing from a single phase load combine ("sternpunkt"). the question then: where is the po...
[17:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:00] <exec> 08└─Alarm clocks kill. And as this is one of the core elements of industrial society, we are all owed basically everything from this system that has been killing us, our entire lives, since childhood. Humans are not meant to wakeup to alarms. Alarm clocks kill our minds and our dreams, and us. The machi...
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[18:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:00] <exec> 08└─I completed this lousy captcha and all I got was an Excel spreadsheet and hacked ;_;
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─Yep, I think Ars tripped over this line from the study abstract, combined with the fact that the study was talking about some non-spectral colors derived from UV+visible color, which humans can't perceive: " For humans, purple (stimulation of blue- and red-sensitive cones) is a nonspectral color; bi...
[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─Because they can't see in IR.
[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─Well, fast compared to what? Compared to a discrete implementation having only a few gates per package, an FPGA is certainly going to run faster because it is missing all of the time delaying effects of packaging and PCB. Compared to a full custom ASIC which doesn’t have the delay of programmable...
[18:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:38] <exec> 08└─It is more special to stick your fingers in a light socket. A heavy socket might even be better.
[18:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:40] <exec> 08└─What? FPGAs are custom hardware. They most definitely can outperform a CPU if the algorithms are amenable to tight implementations. Think regular expressions, computations, etc. Not so much for general business software.
[18:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 1552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:42] <exec> 08└─As a teen, I remember building a "combination lock" out of relay logic. Ten key "pad" -- really ten momentary normally open contact round push buttons, mounted in heavy cardboard box. Six relays. Five of them were wired so that pressing the first digit of the combination energized 1st relay, whose c...
[18:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, before ICs - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─We used to call these devices “jellybeans”, and there are even applications for them today when you only need a handful of gates to carry out some simple “glue logic” function, as in, for example, a power supply monitoring system. Back in the day when ECL reigned supreme, you could use these...
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:59] <exec> 08└─Agreed— for most of these overhyped side channel attacks (especially via the power supply) you need some serious instrumentation that would probably take up a lab cart or two. If you have that kind of access to a target system, you’ll get much better results just trying to go in the front door,...
[18:23:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─Certainly looks like a super spreader to me. What are the chances his phone had a contact tracing app?
[18:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:04] <exec> 08└─This may make a little bit of sense, if they are trying to preserve the glacier as a local tourist attraction.
[18:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:45] <exec> 08└─Let's get serious about this. What happens when such two charged black holes, attracting each other viciously, clash together?
[18:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:23] <exec> 08└─They were, a large part of why is that the precision on them was much better than on the knock offs. Take bricks from pretty much any set back to the earliest plastic ones and they all fit together. The colors are probably still just as good as they were. The sets I have going back to the '80s are m...
[18:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:24] <exec> 08└─That test never did a very good job of testing visualization. It's entirely possible to ace that section without the ability to visualize and without cheating. It tests the visual-spatial sketchpad, and there are different ways in which people manage to do it. Most people visualize, but there's some...
[18:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:26] <exec> 08└─The problem with testing for adults it that it's far more likely that adults have developed other ways of solving problems that are not related to the skill or ability that the test intends to test. There's also a much wider range of abilities as adults than there is for kids. It's one of the reason...
[18:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:29] <exec> 08└─From what I understand there was a period where they swayed way towards having just about every set have a few specialty bricks that were only available in a small number of sets. Since then, they've pared it back a ton because it wasn't economically feasible to have all these blocks that are essent...
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[19:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:06] <exec> 08└─I completed the captcha and all I got was this dupe story from a few days ago.
[19:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:07] <exec> 08└─It would be more efficient to get an Excel spreadsheet, and hacked, without the need to complete a captcha. This idea should be proposed to Microsoft.
[19:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─If someone is unable to complete a captcha, do they not get hacked? Wouldn't that be discrimination?
[19:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:28] <exec> 08└─They also tried a Spyder III Pro Arctic led on the birds. It didn't go well.
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─Did the birds have suitable eye protection?
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─Because they can't see in IR.
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:33] <exec> 08└─If I offended anyone by saying Pink, I apologize for my insensitivity. I should have said Fuschia. [wikipedia.org] Soon to be Google Fuschia. [wikipedia.org]
[19:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:55] <exec> 08└─Not the same AC, but It is more special to stick your fingers in a light socket.
[19:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─When you change logic from 0 or 1 to the infinite number of numbers between 0 and 1... Where are you going to find a CPU for that?
[19:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─The only thing "funny" here is your post.
[19:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─Yeeesh, that is some real 169 IQ right there.
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─He may have gotten sick either way. He would have reduced the chances of infecting others by wearing a mask whenever possible and whenever in close contact to others. Masks work. [nih.gov] They really do. [cnbc.com] Many sources agree. [sciencedaily.com] So put up your legitimate proof or shut the h...
[19:28:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 1033 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:18] <exec> 08└─Serious symptoms started 15 years ago. But, going through my past with my doctor, we found multiple signs of it affecting me since childhood. Adults just dismissed it as 'growing pains.' Doctor confirmed my issues were very abnormal. This has since been confirmed by two more doctors. It has some sim...
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[20:22:12] <exec> 08└─Back in 88 our shop went digital and got a custom computer for all operations. The frigging corporate dicks put a password prompt on almost every operation. You had to enter your password about 8 times just to fill out a repair order. I found you could type faster than the computer (i386) could proc...
[20:22:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:20] <exec> 08└─purple...it's the only non spectral color humans see.
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─That way they can trademark it too, since the color's spelled differently. Ingenious!
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─Consider how colorful hummingbirds are in the first place. Then consider how many more colors they can ... oh, this is probably a natural selection preference, huh?
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─Now I don't even remember which end of a soldering iron to pick up.
[20:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:01] <exec> 08└─Yes They are very Casual but that in itself IS the fashion and they don’t want to deviate from it by wearing a mask. Who wears a mask? Bank robbers, ninjas or worst of all Arabs
[20:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:02] <exec> 08└─First the one you missed: Using good hygiene, especially hand washing whenever you can / it makes sense to, is the very best thing you can always be doing. Yes. Masks really work lower overall infection rates. No, the already established risks to administering hydroxychloroquinine and quinine (2% of...
[20:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:25] <exec> 08└─both of which cannot be used therapeutically.
[20:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:50] <exec> 08└─It was a standard test for the draft here in Italy to create a given shape with blocks. There were 2 or three target shapes, the most difficult could be solved in, like, 40 seconds. The shape was 2d but you needed to flip blocks to succeed. More than spatial awareness it measured dexterity. An earli...
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[20:28:51] <exec> 08└─>Including an Increased Risk of Transgenderism If you had s/Risk of/Opportunity for/ I would have fallen for it.
[20:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:53] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia, bloc blocks YOU!!!
[20:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:09] <exec> 08└─That "471.1" looks like a typo. Current figures are around 416: https://www.co2.earth [www.co2.earth]
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[21:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:58] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying we've been getting the shaft since at least then.
[21:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:00] <exec> 08└─That must have been were the aliens landed their spacecraft. It's an exhaust vent. Nothing to see here.
[21:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:02] <exec> 08└─If they were formed by compression, that should still be evident in the material of the shaft walls/bottoms. Sounds like a combination quarry / sacred site operation to me. Would be cool to find evidence of the quarried material nearby.
[21:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─Could be interesting, perhaps all stones used wasn't transported from as far away as previously thought. As I recall it most of the stones are supposed to have been quarried in Wales which is quite some distance away.
[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─A tool is neither good nor evil. Those things designed for good can produce evil, and those designed for evil can produce good. It all depends, not on the tool, which gives only power, but on the wielder which gives it purpose.
[21:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:17] <exec> 08└─Some people think that there isn't malware for Linux, but there is. And all you need to install it is: user@sucker$ wget https://schlock-site.spam user@sucker$ tar -xf malware-0.6.14.tar.bz2 user@sucker$ cd malware-0.6.14 user@sucker$ ./configure && make user...
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─You only win if your workload is parallelizable. Maximum logic clock on FPGAs is currently on order of 30 MHz.
[21:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, I welcome the assassins with open arms and firearms. It's the lawyers I want to keep off my lawn (housing prices would go to hell).
[21:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Side Channel Attack? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─Well, tricks like reading the sound waves from the power supply are mostly only for lab tests, the CIA and the KGB (oh, right, FSB). If you're not a target of one of the three, you can pretty much ignore this crap.
[21:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─The media are much more consistent than the doctors. Every doctor has their own opinion, but the media will never push HCQ because Trump mentioned it, and the ultimate goal is to remove Trump. Their horse is Remdesvir. Note that as its inutility to help outcomes became known, they transitioned to si...
[21:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:11] <exec> 08└─it's been admitted that the 'no mask' guidance's purpose was to preserve masks for healthcare workers directly exposed
[21:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 2016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:14] <exec> 08└─The original WHO guidance was very carefully worded to be both accurate and easy to miss-interpret at the same time. Note, I do not know if the duality of accurate and easy to miss-interpret was intentional or accidental, and I'm not addressing that possibility because I can't read minds of WHO empl...
[21:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:20] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to verify it, but a graph circulated about covid 19 in italy, and the bell curve sees no signs of interference from the policies enacted at a national and regional level. That is, apparently the measures had been scarcely relevant.
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[22:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:01] <exec> 08└─A bump or a drop in sales though? and coming back to start advertising again, is there a priority list or queue they have to join?
[22:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:02] <exec> 08└─Fucking millenials with their fucking drama. Facefuck is your shit. For it, you bitch and moan, against it, the same shit. Boomers and millenials, the perfect combo storm. There goes American century.
[22:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleBen [8563] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:13] <exec> 08└─As the delightful Skeptoid podcast says "There's hardly a stone on the site that hasn't been adjusted, straightened, picked up from where it had fallen, or repositioned onto a stronger concrete footing." https://skeptoid.com [skeptoid.com] I'd be cautious about drawing much of a conclu...
[22:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:15] <exec> 08└─"Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, ‘Right, lads! Another twenty like that … and then we can party!" – Bill Bryson
[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─No, these are anti-shafts. A shaft would be stiff or hard. Such as the handle of a tool or club, or the body of a spear or arrow. Or rotating to transmit mechanical power, like an axle. These so-called shafts are holes or voids within the ground. Negative space. Dug by aliens? Thus anti-shafts. Not...
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:19] <exec> 08└─Holes from the landing struts.
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Evade Detection, Hackers are Requiring Targets to Complete CAPTCHAs - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:33] <exec> 08└─Anyone remembers shell archives? Those were archives in the form of shell scripts that would write the archived files when executed. Well, I'd say they deserved to fall out of use.
[22:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─Image the REAL capacity as we change from 0 (also thought as 0V) and 1 (>0.7V) to any state. It is the "giift" of Quantum Computing
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─Considering that 5% of the people who get the virus die from it, and that is not just the elderly or the young - otherwise perfectly healthy people of the Sheriff's age have ended up dying from it too - perhaps your conclusion is erroneous. Maybe those who take reasonable precautions and recognize t...
[22:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─Only necessary to whom? He will still die, in time. The only thing that actually matters to the human race is that people do continue to reproduce and we manage to not make the planet uninhabitable to humans. Any other usage you were considering there is vanity.
[22:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:33] <exec> 08└─If we are to redefine words to arrive at our desired conclusions, what's the point of any discussion?
[22:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:35] <exec> 08└─That's a frightening and depressing reality you've chosen to live in. I wish you well.
[22:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italian Glacier Covered with Tarps to Prevent Melting - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:06] <exec> 08└─Do you actually use the word "snarky" in real life? I almost never hear or read this word being used outside of Slashdot and Soylentnews and don't understand why it's used so frequently here. I pretty much assume that anyone using it is probably incredibly insufferable in real life.
[22:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RIP David Perlman, the Dean of American Science Writing - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:16] <exec> 08└─Never heard of him.
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[23:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:03] <exec> 08└─Any publicity is good publicity, so stop talking about companies and feeding their PR stunts by re-posting whatever trendy or controversial decision they make. Additionally, this article is not related to tech. A company relying on electricity to run a factory is not an electrical company. A company...
[23:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:04] <exec> 08└─Well, this slope is almost straight down, but lets roll with it for for the moment. Facebook is racist. Take it out back next to the confederate monuments and smash it to bits.
[23:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:06] <exec> 08└─I know it's convenient for some people to rationalize things and pretend that racism is something you read about in history books. Someone hung a noose in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace's garage yesterday. You may remember him as the driver who spoke out and called for NASCAR to ban Confederate flags....
[23:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:08] <exec> 08└─Anonymous Coward tweets : "I'm out @Millennials #StopWhiningForProfit." For the month of July, I will not be ordering any coffee from otherwise unemployable "baristas", I will not be getting any tattoos, and I will stick to the gender I was born with. Join me in a total boycott of millennials.
[23:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─So, that leaves you as part of what generation? All I ever see is someone complaining about Boomers or complaining about Millenials. At least they're doing something, then? Haven't heard a peep about anyone else.
[23:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:13] <exec> 08└─The problem I see is that Facebook _promotes_ division of people, just one of those methods/labels is racism. The whole stinking mess called Social Media has to be done away with. Take the NZ shooting - LIVE on FB, and zero consequences for FB. Comrade Jacinda should have blocked FB for 30 days plus...
[23:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:15] <exec> 08└─Facebook is a tech company. https://engineering.fb.com [fb.com] https://research.fb.com [fb.com]
[23:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:17] <exec> 08└─"Doing something", on twatter and facefuck, right, god damn "digital social networking" revolution.
[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─It was an inside job. The regular bubba and joe are not allowed in that area.
[23:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:21] <exec> 08└─Bubba Smollett?
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─They are an advertising and telecommunications company. The divisions you mention primarily serve the purpose of recruitment and PR.
[23:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:26] <exec> 08└─Bubba Wallace didn't find the noose and he's not who reported it. It was found by an RPM crew member who alerted NASCAR. Wallace found out when NASCAR President Steve Phelps informed him. This is most certainly not Wallace making a false report. By the way, track workers, NASCAR officials, and crew...
[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─What's your fediverse URL? I find your ideas intriguing, and I would like to send you a friend request over a distributed social networking protocol.
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:42] <exec> 08└─"Although minors might disagree " I'll have to ask the UMW about that. They get really worked up about No Miners Allowed signs.
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─Sure: "Wise men said we have to build this thing to appease the disease gods. If you refuse to work, you're putting us all (including grandma) at risk. Plus, I'll have your head on a stick."
[23:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experiments Show Hummingbirds See Colors You’ve Never Imagined - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:24] <exec> 08└─Millennial research... set your conclusions first, design experiment so data will match, discard data that still doesn't fit, publish.
[23:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:51] <exec> 08└─Are you an actual engineer? Your statement makes no sense. You only win if your workload is parallelizable.
[23:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:52] <exec> 08└─And soon enough, you can be packed in an urn. Smaller isn't always better.
[23:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Logic, Before ICs - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:54] <exec> 08└─PLLs are totally hackable. Using logic circuits instead of a row of about 80 toggle switches is much cleaner.
[23:24:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:47] <exec> 08└─It is a GOOD thing that experts and authorities change direction at times, when backed by facts and evidence. Government policy backed by science is a GOOD thing. Policy backed by wishful thinking and ideology is not. The only "constant" of the universe is that Things Change (AKA entropy). There is...
[23:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─Handcuffed in the paddywagon.
[23:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arizona Sheriff Responds After Positive COVID-19 Test, Says He Wouldn't Enforce Mask Mandates - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:04] <exec> 08└─Or people who want to stay healthy and keep others healthy and don't want some dumbfuck Trump supporter telling them what to wear and what not to wear?
[23:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indonesia's Mt Merapi Erupts, Spewing Ash 6 Km High - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:14] <exec> 08└─He wants them to be good Christians, or at least Buddhists. None of this Muslim stuff.
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