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[00:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:59] <exec> 08└─I shouldn't be soaking my face mask in toxic methanol to kill the chroma virus?
[00:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strainoptronics: New Way to Control Photons - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they strainoptronicsed themselves coming up with that name.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─AMD took those questions too far, and got hit with a class action lawsuit. Dark times.
[00:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:33] <exec> 08└─The folks that grow 'em blame the water. Pine needles aren't killing toxic to pecans, as near as I can tell, they just starve them for water so they don't grow or produce nuts - eventually they shade them out. Black walnut and I think black cherry have some really impressive toxins that kill anythin...
[00:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:35] <exec> 08└─It's actually pretty simple when you think about it: Chile paid people to grow trees: non-specific whether plantation or wild forest. Of course people are going to plant plantation that they make more money on, and some of that plantation is going to displace existing wild forest - just from the mon...
[00:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:37] <exec> 08└─Pine needles are toxic to almost everything that might compete for sunlight and nutrients. They might not kill the other plant, but they don't need to. They just need to prevent it from growing taller than the pine tree, and taking the sunlight. To be fair, the pine trees may well be taking a lot...
[00:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:39] <exec> 08└─What was happening on the land we were looking at was people were planting pine plantations in what used to be pecan country, so you'd see these pecan trees on the edge of the pines, sometimes inside. The old timer who told me about the water was pointing to a ~25' tall skinny pecan tree that had be...
[00:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:41] <exec> 08└─Like in Enders Game: https://www.enotes.com [enotes.com]
[00:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─Kind of sad google is now giving their opinion along with search results. It took over two seconds to load search results from google the other day. The page was in the megabytes. I remember when they only did search and everyone used it because it was simple and fast. What's next, searching for por...
[00:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:23] <exec> 08└─I would think you last sentence there is actually the ultimate goal for them, and quite honestly for a lot of "computer" companies. Perhaps it's not all to bad? People that are into, or actually need, computers will still get computers and everyone else will just get one of them laptop-mobile-tablet...
[00:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:02] <exec> 08└─My excuse: I "own" some things. Things that are easily taken from me by nothing more than a stroke of a pen. Men with guns will enforce if needed. I am seeing more and more the wisdom of not fighting battles I can't win. Nowhere left to run to get away from the takers of things. I am really ponderin...
[00:26:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] 02 - 06"BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:51] <exec> 08└─I say good for BlueLeaks. Transparency in law enforcement has been sorely lacking since, well, forever. Even if it is a small window into the dark inner workings, maybe future windows will be more illuminating.
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[01:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:55] <exec> 08└─Why the hell do we need to put out warnings saying not to drink hand sanitizer? Not putting out the warning would be doing the gene pool a huge favor.
[01:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:56] <exec> 08└─Do you let it dry before wearing it or are you anti-trump?
[01:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:58] <exec> 08└─》Why the hell do we need to put out warnings saying not to drink hand sanitizer? Millennials. Once they empty out their Mom's liquor cabinet, they'll take anything that's liquid down to the basement to drink.
[01:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:01] <exec> 08└─and systemic effects if absorbed through the skin
[01:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:03] <exec> 08└─Because some idiots drink bleach.
[01:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:05] <exec> 08└─Why the hell do we need to put out warnings saying not to drink hand sanitizer?
[01:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:07] <exec> 08└─https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/ShopHQ/491-451?DefaultImage=1&$472x472_jpg$ [scene7.com] When you see stuff like that on the shelves, you've got to wonder.
[01:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:09] <exec> 08└─As a self-identified Black businesswoman, I find it appalling that USA imports toxic hand cleaner from Mexico when the government could start a program to subsidize Black-owned companies to produce non-poisonous hand cleaners in the USA.
[01:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:05] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't this be on Buzzfeed instead of SN?
[01:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:38] <exec> 08└─The MSM will propel Biden to victory. He's not female, so he won't have health problems, etc..
[01:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:39] <exec> 08└─Given how much Google has helped them with the firewall
[01:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:41] <exec> 08└─Lycos, Yahoo, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, Google, Bing, ... It must be just about time for a new search engine to rise. Hopefully one that actually provides the results you searched for, instead of the highest value ads that can be vaguely related to the query.
[01:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:43] <exec> 08└─No health problems aside from the severe dementia.
[01:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:37] <exec> 08└─I've also suspected that's their ultimate goal - to turn the Mac into the same kind of walled garden that the iPhone/iPad is. Getting a sweet 30% cut of every software sale on the Mac must be mighty tempting. Anyone who wants or needs a computer will still buy a computer - it just won't be one with...
[01:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:38] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton [wikipedia.org] "Most Newton devices were based on the ARM 610 RISC processor and all featured handwriting-based input." https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "According to Allen Baum, the StrongARM traces its history to attempts to make a...
[01:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:10] <exec> 08└─You may be confused about how any of that works. Some legal process should have kicked off instantly after 15/3/19...
[01:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:11] <exec> 08└─The rebel flag was used both by the KKK and the Dixiecrats, both of whom were quite racist. Given the history of the flag, how would it be irrational to view the rebel flag as a symbol of racism?
[01:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:13] <exec> 08└─And banning it says fuck you right back
[01:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:16] <exec> 08└─Putting that flag on someone else's property, such as NASCAR's, is not your right.
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[02:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, restart that prohibition, give the police something to do different from chasing self-identified Black businesswoman on the streets - that's a solution that should appeal to conservatives too.
[02:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:19] <exec> 08└─The summary mentioned that it also causes ill effects when absorbed through the skin. But yeah, hand sanitizer drinkers are worse than mouthwash drinkers.
[02:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─Truly an accident waiting to happen.
[02:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:24] <exec> 08└─They sometimes sneak that shit into their liquor, too. Methanol is CHEEP! If you are a tourist, stick to beer.
[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:26] <exec> 08└─I got methanol coming right out of my kitchen faucet. It goes great with Walmart's Great Value Colombian ground coffee.
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:28] <exec> 08└─It should be just fine as long as you don't get it on your skin.
[02:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strainoptronics: New Way to Control Photons - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:37] <exec> 08└─As a self-identified Black businesswoman, I wonder if the government could start a program to subsidize Black-owned companies to produce strainoptronics devices.
[02:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:15] <exec> 08└─Java 15 (September 2020) will increase maximum heap from 4 TB to 16 TB. (remember, this is Java, so more memory always welcome.) The most cores I've ever heard of a single Java instance running on was 768 cores. So 64 cores is definitely not enough.
[02:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─As a self-identified Black businesswoman, I find it appalling that Japan is top of this list when the government could start a program to subsidize Black-owned companies to produce a faster computer in the USA.
[02:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:12] <exec> 08└─As a self-identified Black businesswoman, I find it appalling that USA plans to plant 1 trillion white birch trees, when the government should instead start a program to subsidize Black-owned companies to plant 1 trillion black ash trees.
[02:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:14] <exec> 08└─Getting trees right takes more work than just shoving some seeds in the ground and hoping for the best.
[02:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AHuxley [254] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:42] <exec> 08└─The wider smartphone population was never to work out what the NSA and GCHQ could do. That tech is now at a cost that the FBI can use the same nation wide smartphone collection methods. Then city and state police can afford the tech. The idea of "going dark" was to get the domestic message out that...
[02:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Payments Firm Wirecard: $2.1 Billion in Missing Cash Balances "Likely Doesn't Exist" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:03] <exec> 08└─Wirecard says missing $2.1 billion likely did not exist
[02:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Payments Firm Wirecard: $2.1 Billion in Missing Cash Balances "Likely Doesn't Exist" - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:04] <exec> 08└─I worked for a company that sold medical devices - they'd hire a new crop of 100 kids straight out of college every year, throw 'em out in the field with minimal training, and act surprised when laws were broken.
[02:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The North Face is the Biggest Brand Yet to Join Facebook Ad Boycott - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:40] <exec> 08└─Well then, at minimum, the MoJ have 100% failed in their role.
[02:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:09] <exec> 08└─You're not going to adjust, pick up, or otherwise move a hole dug through limestone though.
[02:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:10] <exec> 08└─And all the warm beer you can drink after knock-off time.
[02:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:12] <exec> 08└─:-) Ah, but these are limestone holes - everyone knows that moving limestone holes leaves permanent scarring in the rock. Even if you get dozens of people to move them very carefully. And at 10x5meters these would be some very heavy holes, not like the little ones at Stonehenge.
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[03:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:57] <exec> 08└─Now you might think with no H-1Bs, the tech industry will be forced to hire all those formerly unemployable highly skilled Americans who allegedly just didn't have any skills last week according to the industry standard rejection letter that all tech companies send to every American applicant. You w...
[03:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:59] <exec> 08└─As an IT worker that had his pay reduced of 20% because non-citizens work for cheaper, I applaud this! It's about time! H1Bs and all of the other pay suppressing programs need to be gotten rid of. If the industry responds by outsourcing more to foreign countries, I hope they like the insecurity and...
[03:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:01] <exec> 08└─The looter president declared we the billionaires can't have our slave labor caste? Well fuck this shit, America can burn to the fucking ground. I hope the orange monkey man coughs to death with his lungs full of coronavirus. - every Libertarian
[03:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, I agree. Pay-suppressing programs need to go away. We should overthrow capitalism.
[03:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:05] <exec> 08└─Note that L visas are frozen too. No more bloody British managers excaping Brexit.
[03:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:08] <exec> 08└─H-1B is fraud fodder
[03:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:10] <exec> 08└─No more bloody British managers excaping Brexit.
[03:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:12] <exec> 08└─Have they found that inexhaustible cheap source of energy yet? Otherwise it's only a bluff.
[03:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:14] <exec> 08└─Libertarian presidential nominee visits Twin Cities for Juneteenth, George Floyd memorial [lp.org] “Recognizing the increasing evidence of widespread inappropriate use of force by law enforcement, I am committed to listening and then doing what I can to end police misconduct,” said Jorgensen. ...
[03:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:16] <exec> 08└─Comeon man, everyone knows that "excaping" means removing your cape.
[03:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and Romney wants to only pick a black female running mate. Not for anything important... like qualifications, but only for the reason of k̶i̶s̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶b̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶v̶o̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶s̶s̶e̶s̶ racial equality.
[03:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─then ethanol is also. Meaning COVID-19 might be turning the entire world into chronic alcoholics. Unexpected side effect...
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─Well you're right on that: nobody expects much alcohol in any north American beer, so nobody has any need to replace it with methanol.
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:43] <exec> 08└─The sign read: “Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.” “It seemed to me,” said Wonko the Sane, “that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed...
[03:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─2% methanol is probably nothing to be worried about, unless you're totally daft and are actually ingesting the stuff. Percutaneous absorption of methanol, while it does happen, doesn't seem to be a very effective way to get enough methanol into the body to become a significant risk to health. You'd...
[03:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:48] <exec> 08└─True, but it's not a very effective way to absorb either alcohol. The only documented case of someone going blind from percutaneous exposure to methanol involves a factory worker who spilled a gallon of methanol on himself and let his clothes dry without changing them.
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strainoptronics: New Way to Control Photons - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:58] <exec> 08└─When I hear "strain" and "optics" used together, I think "polarizing filter". Any info? Any data on spectral response?
[03:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:35] <exec> 08└─what's a core, really?
[03:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, whatever happened to the term "vector processor"?
[03:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:07] <exec> 08└─aarch64 Hackintosh.
[03:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:36] <exec> 08└─Indeed... sometimes trees don't grow somewhere, or are naturally widely spaced, because that's what the water profile can support. Suppress wildfire (and don't log out surplus) and pretty soon you have too many trees starving for water, and California-grade fires.
[03:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:26] <exec> 08└─It's not likely Apple will allow booting other operating systems on their native hardware. So a Mac owner could run Linux in a VM - they demoed that feature - but it's not going to support user freedom in general or Linux on ARM in particular. Our best hope, and it's slim, is that some backdoor in t...
[03:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:36] <exec> 08└─I wonder if one of those indoor paragliding facilities (vertical wind tunnel) would count as an anti-shaft? I could see turning it up too high and smashing someone into the ceiling. I'd certainly feel shafted if that happened and I didn't at least get a refund.
[03:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:38] <exec> 08└─Meh, just as well to avoid the UMWA, given my family history. My great uncle John refused to join the Illinois mine workers to the UMWA and stayed with Samuel Gompers and the AFL. Given who was head of the UMWA it wasn't a great career move. (True story. John Hunter Walker is mentioned as being toss...
[03:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:40] <exec> 08└─"press that deeply into the surface" Only if the 23d street spindizzy is acting up again.
[03:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe people are referring to the structure which maintains the hole and not to the hole itself.
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[04:22:08] <exec> 08└─Why Romney Marched [theatlantic.com] - Trump mocks Mitt Romney’s participation in George Floyd protests [nypost.com]
[04:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:09] <exec> 08└─I hope the orange monkey man coughs to death with his lungs full of coronavirus He will have to beat 'likes to smell children' to do it.
[04:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:11] <exec> 08└─The tech industry won't die because they're both in bed with our "deep state" but also taking money from Chicoms and our so-called "allies" in the Middle-East. They can be kept alive as long as black budgets and slush funds are a thing. But if we can get more Americans in, it will be a good thing be...
[04:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:13] <exec> 08└─"H-1B is fraud fodder" It may well be, but there's a bigger problem. The reason companies like H-1Bs is that they're captive laborers. They don't get to negotiate, they don't get to accept a better job, they either do exactly as they are told or they get deported. This shouldn't be tolerated, not on...
[04:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:15] <exec> 08└─Depends on how much of H1Bs are just cheap labour vs. genuinely irreplaceable people. Blocking H1Bs by assuming an H1B with a PhD in biochemistry can be replaced by Joe the out-of-work meat plant packer from Idaho could end up hurting the US more than it helps. Still, it looks good on paper and gets...
[04:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:42] <exec> 08└─Your post doesn't make any fucking sense in reply to mine.
[04:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:32] <exec> 08└─I too remember the superscalar computers reaching practical limits in the 90s, and parallelism and parallel programming talked about. The whole paradigm forked: On 1 hand you still have massively parallel operations in vector / SIMD processing, which is largely used in audio, video, and general sign...
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[04:23:34] <exec> 08└─Amd64 has a ton more registers than i386, so all other things being equal, will probably be faster (since fewer memory moves). 64 bit also provides a huge address space that makes attacks against ASLR impractical that are practical on 32 bit.
[04:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:29] <exec> 08└─What's next, searching for porn and them telling me masturbation is a sin?
[04:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Thinks It's Time to Return to Neptune with its Trident Mission - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:47] <exec> 08└─I agree that orbiters would be better. But, if we can't have that, is it possible to have a trajectory that encounters Neptune twice within a relatively short time of 10 years or so between encounters? Not that another probe into interstellar space wouldn't have some value too. Really though, we oug...
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[05:22:04] <exec> 08└─Haha! I spend all my time browsing web sites nobody has ever heard of. Nobody puts trackers on sites nobody visits. I haven't seen an ad in so long, I don't even know what ads look like this decade.
[05:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle’s BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:06] <exec> 08└─. /haha
[05:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oracle’s BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:08] <exec> 08└─Put it on a leaky server for the pick up, make it look like an accident. Kinda like leaving the loading dock open during the night shift.
[05:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:30] <exec> 08└─Probably 4 years too late, but about time... Google "how not to hire an american' for everything on this scam..
[05:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:32] <exec> 08└─Finally, that AC who is always bitching about there being no IT jobs, will finally get an IT job. But I suspect the reason for his not getting job was incompetence and complete lack of humanity, in otherwords, a neo-nazi alt-right libertariantard incel asshole of the first, and second, degrees. I w...
[05:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:34] <exec> 08└─Do you actually even know the conditions for H1B? The IT companies are misusing them, but there are other people who could use H1B properly.
[05:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:02] <exec> 08└─About 50% of poisonings per year are children under six years old and 90% of those are from ingestion. Believe me, those at the lower end of those ages love to drink from random containers they see and they can be surprisingly quick too.
[05:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:23] <exec> 08└─We really need a +1 subscribedtonewsletter mod for these posts. Please tells us more about your OKCupid dates, inquiring minds need to know.
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[06:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:25] <exec> 08└─Article and video on how to avoid hiring an American (in America!) so you can get that cheap slave labor brought here from overseas instead.. https://www.dailykos.com [dailykos.com] This is the root of the problem. It affects everyone in IT, where real median salaries & be...
[06:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:26] <exec> 08└─There's lots on in those google results.. this particular link was really insightful (video and article instructing how to disqualify Americans so you can get a (cheaper) H-1B instead and get rid of your Americans) https://www.dailykos.com [dailykos.com]
[06:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─Comeon man, everyone knows that "excaping" means removing your cape.
[06:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:31] <exec> 08└─Do *you* know the conditions? Have you ever wondered why there's entry level positions that require years of experience as well as experience with various industry-only tools and technologies, yet still pay entry level salaries? It's somewhat of a nonstarter. And that's intentional. "We tried and ad...
[06:22:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:53] <exec> 08└─Well you're right on that: nobody expects much alcohol in any north American beer, so nobody has any need to replace it with methanol.
[06:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:59] <exec> 08└─You need to read up more on methanol. Every glass of beer or wine you drink has methanol in it. Unlike liquor, it's not removed from non-distilled alcoholic beverages. The amount you absorb through your skin from using hand sanitizer properly isn't enough to harm you, even if you use it a dozen time...
[06:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:01] <exec> 08└─Dude, there's methanol in beer. Your liver doesn't like it nearly as much as ethanol but it's not cyanide.
[06:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:04] <exec> 08└─Nah, this is straight up fearmongering idiocy in an attempt to appear relevant. Yes, if you try drinking methanol like it's ethanol, you will go blind and die. No, if you use it on your hands, your liver is quite capable of removing the piddly amounts you're getting into your system. Just like it do...
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[07:21:56] <exec> 08└─Alt-right radicalization still on schedule? Or no one really falling for that bullshit? Can we get some more edge lords to tell us how hate is good, oppression is logical, and cherry picked facts without context are super obvious?
[07:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:35] <exec> 08└─As an IT worker that had his pay reduced of 20% because non-citizens work for cheaper, I applaud this!
[07:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:36] <exec> 08└─Finally, that AC who is always bitching about there being no IT jobs, will finally get an IT job.
[07:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:38] <exec> 08└─I think that sort of disingenuous suggestion isn't really adding much here. In the US the vast majority of people with STEM degrees do not work in STEM. And beyond this most jobs in STEM don't even really necessitate a STEM degree. On top of this education in India is a bit different than the US. No...
[07:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:10] <exec> 08└─Humanity discovered parenting long ago, actually it was and still is a positive evolutionary trait. Why would one want to discard it today?
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[07:26:51] <exec> 08└─Apple has survived two other transitions so far, M68K to PPC, and PPC to Intel.
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[08:22:41] <exec> 08└─So much this. If a US-based worker, whether on a H1-B or not, can work from home without significant issues, then that job could just as easily be done from wherever the company concerned has been getting their H1-B workers from. If there's one thing that Covid-19 has proven to a lot of these tech c...
[08:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:15] <exec> 08└─Quit identifying yourself, and do something about it. The process is literally so easy that illiterate rednecks have been doing it for centuries. The hard part is doing it legally. Quit looking to government. If government got out of the way, we'd have more white lightning than you can shake a stick...
[08:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Google Starts Fact-Checking Images - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:01] <exec> 08└─The harsh reality is that Google, along with Facebook Twitter etc, already employs a small army of content curators, to deal with copyright strikes, censoring content in unfree countries, and dealing with complaints. Institutionally, their bureaucracy is well equipped to take content curation and ed...
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[09:22:10] <exec> 08└─Of course, there is no evidence that anybody accessed this data, other than the researcher.
[09:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─Everybody knows that they should be frozen within hours of picking to keep the flavour in. No, wait: that's green peas...
[09:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:19] <exec> 08└─Unless you want to constantly helicopter, and even then, your kids will get in trouble somehow eventually and there are millions of kids out there with plenty of split seconds to get into trouble collectively across the U.S. When it comes to the unexpected and unplanned for happening, here [youtu.be...
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[09:23:21] <exec> 08└─They did. But numerous independent studies failed to reproduce the result, so it got retracted.
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[09:23:23] <exec> 08└─But that would be missing the point. The best solution for many problems is to import as much toxic products as possible, and even subsidize them so they're cheaper than the non-toxic ones.
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[10:22:17] <exec> 08└─Don't worry I'm sure you are on the elusive unicorn list, soon you will get ads for beef jerky and other things to keep in your survivalist bunker.
[10:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:52] <exec> 08└─This goes well beyond H-1B visas. So much of academia is built on exploitation, including the very thing you're describing. There are a lot of foreign grad students, many from China and India, working in university labs. Pay is almost always horrendous for grad students whether they're domestic or i...
[10:24:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06When Planting Trees Threatens the Forest - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:58] <exec> 08└─strong subsidy restrictions, such as prohibitions against replacing native forests with tree plantations
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[11:22:13] <exec> 08└─Just watch CNN. Totally unbiased reporting of only facts.
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[11:23:00] <exec> 08└─Unsealed documents from a Trump/Epstein civil suit claimed that Trump raped a girl Epstein brought to a party that they both had oral sex with, then after they were finished Trump threatened not only her but her family if she ever spoke about it to the government, press, etc. Even though it should h...
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[12:22:01] <exec> 08└─Call the waahmbulance... a millennial didn't get to see his name in a book no one reads anymore. If Billy Mitchell was Black, Guinness would have had the police shoot him by now.
[12:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:03] <exec> 08└─He paid good money for that record, you insensitive clod!
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[12:22:05] <exec> 08└─If he was *really* good, it would only have cost him a quarter.
[12:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:07] <exec> 08└─As a white man I'm wondering what the number is that I have to call to get the police to shoot some black people for me. I seem to have misplaced my card.
[12:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:09] <exec> 08└─>> what the number is that I have to call to get the police to shoot some black people for me 9-1-1 in most locations.
[12:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, like the NASCAR garage door rope that has a loop on the end that's been on that door more than a year before some dumb ass black retard moves in and sees it as a noose. Many auto shops with those doors have a rope hanging from it and most of them have been tied into a loop to make it easier to...
[12:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:13] <exec> 08└─The number is 555, It's easy to remember by the letter in the middle.
[12:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Gives Thumbs Up to Hey Email App After Update Rejection - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:22] <exec> 08└─They have a "razor and blades" business model. They give away their hardware at cost, and make money on the applications.
[12:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Caters to China by Pulling Thousands of “Unlicensed” iPhone Games - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:32] <exec> 08└─I was given an original gen 1 iPad by work back in the day, they were trying to spend for tax deductions, everyone got one. I still remember the joy of checking each day what apps had been released. There were 20 apps per day released on average. Nearly all were of a very high calibre and worth whil...
[12:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Oracle's BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:43] <exec> 08└─people complain about being mauled by oracle guns. oracle replies that after reviewing their guns and making modifications the gun, in the future, will work properlly and kill evrybody reliably that has been shot at ...
[12:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle's BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:45] <exec> 08└─Because the FBI doesn't leave a text file that says "thanks".
[12:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:23] <exec> 08└─i hope your "apple" falls far from the tree ...
[12:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03quan2mst8 [4032] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:24] <exec> 08└─It sounds great to the management class. They've tried it before, but it didn't work out. There are several reasons: 1. Lower standards - Indian firms have a lower standard of work and work acceptability. This can remedied over time, similar to Chinese steel works, but it's not ready yet. 2. Lower t...
[12:28:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06German Payments Firm Wirecard: $2.1 Billion in Missing Cash Balances "Likely Doesn't Exist" - 564 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:38] <exec> 08└─You mean that it's working out better for the US, where we do have term limits for the head of state, the opposition party provides an alternative instead of trying to get their fingers in at all cost, and covid19 restrictions have been carefully tuned to be effective yet not damage the economy? How...
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[13:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:57] <exec> 08└─repetition that it is great makes it great! Good job making it great!!
[13:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:12] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there ...
[13:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:20] <exec> 08└─What nobody has mentioned yet is that with all the teleworking going on now, you can bet your ass that a lot more jobs will be outsourced to foreign countries as soon as they can get away with it, now that employers have a much better idea of who can do things remotely. Quite frankly though, anyone...
[13:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:22] <exec> 08└─Forgive me, bro, but Describing when a person who has recently broke a relationship off is avoiding their ex to escape awkwardness between the two.
[13:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:24] <exec> 08└─a neo-nazi alt-right libertariantard incel asshole of the first, and second, degrees
[13:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:26] <exec> 08└─It gives a reasonable chance to switch jobs with a 30% raise though. Let me tell you how hiring works in many cases nowadays as I once went through the process myself. 1. Try to find the resource to work offshore - 2 months. 2. If not available/refuses, try to bring the resource on H1 - 1 month (som...
[13:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:28] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, you're not the first one to make that mistake. Seems many people think it applies [nltimes.nl] also [foxnews.com] to [rt.com] workers [wikipedia.org] without [dw.com] the [dw.com] green [firstpost.com] card [brusselstimes.com].
[13:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:05] <exec> 08└─I have yet to reach a conclusion. I'm working on it.
[13:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:57] <exec> 08└─But were those independent cores, or just independent ALU's? IIRC they were part of Intel's massively-parallel GPU projects, which means that the cores could not execture different program structures independently -- just execute the same instruction on a wide range of memory locations. Vector progr...
[13:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:58] <exec> 08└─Initially in the form of PCIe-based add-on cards, a second generation product, codenamed Knights Landing, was announced in June 2013. These second generation chips could be used as a standalone CPU, rather than just as an add-in card. [...] Knights Landing contains up to 72 Airmont (Atom) cores with...
[13:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:00] <exec> 08└─The marketing department says that they can make up for this by creating a very beautiful splash scream. (servers scream silently in the background)
[13:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:02] <exec> 08└─How far can your nerf a core and still call it a core?
[13:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:56] <exec> 08└─The Intel x86 monopoly is terrible, but crucially the overwhelming majority of x86 devices ship with unlocked boot loaders. Device driver support in Linux or *BSD might be inadequate for any particular piece of hardware, but there are on the order of a billion combined laptops and desktops around th...
[13:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Huge Ring of Ancient Shafts near Stonehenge - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:13] <exec> 08└─Meh never played it always stuck with alpha centauri and colonization.
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[14:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:01] <exec> 08└─If I am to guess, he have not really seen it with his eyes, but was smart enough to realize that it is a better flying technique. Once one believes, he often actually starts to see it. Another example is how horses run. Even though pretty much everybody can see how they move their legs, all the arti...
[14:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:03] <exec> 08└─The Mona Lisa is hardly Leonardo da Vinci's best work. Most famous perhaps, but hardly a “masterpiece”, and only a vaguely realistic rendition.
[14:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:05] <exec> 08└─Wrong? Horses have multiple options for gait, here are some, claimed to be the first identified photographically, https://www.amnh.org [amnh.org] From horse country (Kentucky), here is more detail including differentiating natura...
[14:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:19] <exec> 08└─Citation needed, a noose has a very different knot than what you'd use for something like that. A noose is intended to slide easily, making it inherently unsuitable for applications like this. I'm not aware of any pictures of the actual rope being posted online, so you're being purely speculative he...
[14:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:21] <exec> 08└─Billy Mitchell isn't a millennial. He was born in 1965 making him Gen-X and practically a Boomer. Geez you people are really stretching the definition of millennial when you need to mock somebody. I personally am not up on the particular controversy, but from what I understand, the basis for him bei...
[14:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─You could, like, google for yourself too... Here's the top link that I got: https://www.sportingnews.com [sportingnews.com]
[14:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 532 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─"H-1B is fraud fodder" It may well be, but there's a bigger problem. The reason companies like H-1Bs is that they're captive laborers. They don't get to negotiate, they don't get to accept a better job, they either do exactly as they are told or they get deported. This shouldn't be tolerated, not on...
[14:23:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edinlinux [4637] 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─Article and video on how to avoid hiring an American (in America!) so you can get that cheap slave labor brought here from overseas instead.. https://www.dailykos.com [dailykos.com] This is the root of the problem. It affects everyone in IT, where real median salaries & be...
[14:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:37] <exec> 08└─... because we do not permit involuntary servitude within our borders.
[14:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:38] <exec> 08└─Blocking H1Bs by assuming an H1B with a PhD in biochemistry can be replaced by Joe the out-of-work meat plant packer from Idaho could end up hurting the US more than it helps.
[14:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─If they could capture the hot air from orange man speeches.
[14:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:18] <exec> 08└─Imported from Mexico? I thought we got all of our toxic products from China?
[14:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─Troll? Must've been a progressive. They're allergic to facts.
[14:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:16] <exec> 08└─It is absolutely true that you must understand parallelism. It is also a fact that not all parallel approaches are equally easy to develop for. It is easier to program 128 cpu cores than 128 gpu cores. Especially if what a thread will be doing is not "micro" operations such as a GPU, but a more comp...
[14:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 2310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:11] <exec> 08└─Linux falls down for the average person for two reasons: 1. The whole fucking world is hooked on Microsoft file formats. LibreOffice, Google Docs, and other alternatives are fine office suites in their own right but everyone occasionally needs to send a document to a potential employer, a school, a...
[14:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:12] <exec> 08└─Right. If they announced unlocked boot loaders and published documentation for creating device drivers for their new hardware in Linux (or anything else), I would be excited for the change. As is, no thank you. The only good news I see is that existing x86_64 Macs should depreciate rapidly in value....
[14:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers) - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:54] <exec> 08└─No we don't!
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[15:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:00] <exec> 08└─It's a really tough time for particle physics... FCC cost is looking like 30 GEur and it might not be built. It's not at all clear that FCC will be approved by the funding agencies... > Europe and the UK ps: Note UK is still in Europe, just not the European Union. Switzerland, where most of FCC woul...
[15:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:02] <exec> 08└─funds for the project would have to be made available by participating countries in Europe and the U.K.—and this time, perhaps, from other countries such as the U.S
[15:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:04] <exec> 08└─Make it a prototype test rig for the stupid "hyperloop"... now that's what I call a particle collider!
[15:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:06] <exec> 08└─>> The approval by the CERN council was not an official go-ahead for the project—it was a go-ahead to look into its feasibility And then they'll spend another two years deciding how many genders should be employed in its construction. This is why it will be years late and billions overbudget. OTOH...
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─A quick search for explanation for Mona Lisa's smile confirms what I remembered--there have been many different explanations for the famously ambiguous smile. It would be neat if some researcher took high speed video of someone with a similar shape of face. Perhaps play different standup ro...
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─Ah, so Trump's MAGA plan was just to make the same mistakes over and over again?
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─I could, but that's not my responsibility. I have no way of knowing which particular source the poster was referring to.
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─Wow, why would someone tie a knot like that instead of the simpler and much better bowline? Personally, I used a monkey's fist so I didn't have to worry about kids getting stuck in a loop.
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Gives Thumbs Up to Hey Email App After Update Rejection - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be the first time Apple gave someone the finger [wikipedia.org].
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Caters to China by Pulling Thousands of “Unlicensed” iPhone Games - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─Why is that funny?
[15:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─Recently dug this out for another story here, Camile Pagila in 2011: Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedant...
[15:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:59] <exec> 08└─The abusive faculty are condemned to a lifetime of bullying Chinese 21-year olds. Nobody else can stand working with them.
[15:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:01] <exec> 08└─> Comeon man, everyone knows that "excaping" means removing your max. FTFY
[15:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─There is no proper use for a visa that's tied to a specific employer with no ability to change jobs without having to leave the country. It's an inherently abusive position to be in where the worker effectively has to take the conditions the employer is offering and in many cases are under immense p...
[15:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:05] <exec> 08└─We've been overproducing virtually all of the necessary workers for those jobs for decades. There are tons of people out there right now with doctorates and nowhere to actually use them. If there's legitimately a shortage of candidates with a particular skill set, then there needs to be some sort of...
[15:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:07] <exec> 08└─To be fair, if it were a British poster, it would have be euxucuaupuiunugu. Fucking Brits and their overuse of the letter u.
[15:24:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 417 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:31] <exec> 08└─The sign read: “Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.” “It seemed to me,” said Wonko the Sane, “that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed...
[15:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:47] <exec> 08└─Come on, don't whine about a downmod like that one user.
[15:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:49] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of American beers with 10%+ ABV.
[15:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:51] <exec> 08└─The problem is that at least one was 81% methanol, as in almost totally methanol, which is very bad.
[15:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:53] <exec> 08└─That wasn't meant as a whine. I'm quite proud that I butthurt someone enough with verifiable facts that they rage-modded me.
[15:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─I got scared away from drinking until I was almost legal just from the smell of beer. I can't imagine thinking anything else containing alcohols would smell better at that age.
[15:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:57] <exec> 08└─Methanol doesn't absorb into your skin any quicker than ethanol does, so here's an experiment to discover for yourself exactly how dangerous using methanol on your hands is: Pour yourself a bowl of everclear or other high-percentage ethanol source.Put your hand in it and wait until you're drunk.When...
[15:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:00] <exec> 08└─Something tells me you won't reproduce.
[15:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:02] <exec> 08└─Multiple people have said it would take quite a bit of it to cause the same bad effects that swallowing it would. Still, it's best not to have an item mislabeled, at the least. Accidentally ingesting x amount of ethanol isn't the same as accidentally ingesting the same amount of methanol. There's al...
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[16:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:01] <exec> 08└─Because right now it's still kind of square, but we'll have it straightened out in no time at all.
[16:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─But more importantly, how does this sell smart phones? It could serve up live updates and alerts via an app that collects user data. Perhaps it could be remote controlled exclusively using the newest smart phone models. It has to be monetized somehow. It it doesn't involved smart phones somehow, the...
[16:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:04] <exec> 08└─The future collision is between a micro black hole and Earth.
[16:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:07] <exec> 08└─Had a similar idea -- once the tunnels are built, but before any equipment is installed, use the course for high speed record setting. Right now the Bloodhound has to run on specially groomed desert, but it could be a lot nicer to run in a tunnel without any possibility of crosswind or hitting some...
[16:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:09] <exec> 08└─1. Collect presidential tweets 2. Accelerate them to nearly the speed of light in opposite directions 3. Collide them within a detector (like smashing two swiss watches together to see what comes flying out) 4. ??? 5. Prophet
[16:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:11] <exec> 08└─While not mentioned, this new proposal is a bit larger than the last one the USA tried-- https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the desertron) was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the v...
[16:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:13] <exec> 08└─China is already doing this alone. Bigger than LHC. Some old news: https://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] Some science: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:15] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>I second this, because at this point in time, we know everything there is to ever know and our understand of the world is accurate, complete, and final. Performing ANY mental work that even remotely touches on even thinking about looking into things further should be punished, and even ridi...
[16:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:17] <exec> 08└─Circling The Square again, are you?
[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one to find the woman in this painting really rather plain - if not downright ugly? It seems to be in good taste to find her image to be the pinnacle of feminine beauty, but I wouldn't want to hang that painting in my home if you offered it to me...
[16:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:31] <exec> 08└─Why ascribe remarkable superpowers to Leonardo when there's a simpler explanation. He just took a photo if Mona with the digital camera he'd invented to take upskirt photos of ladies climbing the Leaning Tower of Pisa (see page 137 of the Leicester Codex) and copied from that.
[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─You are not the original audience! Here's one very cursory tour of what beauty meant through the ages, https://www.visagemedart.com [visagemedart.com]
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:35] <exec> 08└─No, you are not the only one. Every time I have heard praise of her supposed beauty, my first thought has always been: "Really? There must of been a whole lot of fugly back then." I just don't get it.
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:37] <exec> 08└─You mean here [codex-atlanticus.it]? http://www.codex-atlanticus.it [codex-atlanticus.it] Or is there some other page 13 I should be referring to? -- hendrik
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:57] <exec> 08└─Citation needed, a noose has a very different knot than what you'd use for something like that. A noose is intended to slide easily, making it inherently unsuitable for applications like this. I'm not aware of any pictures of the actual rope being posted online, so you're being purely speculative he...
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─Billy Mitchell isn't a millennial. He was born in 1965 making him Gen-X and practically a Boomer. Geez you people are really stretching the definition of millennial when you need to mock somebody. I personally am not up on the particular controversy, but from what I understand, the basis for him bei...
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─Small potatoes. If you really want to kill black people, you want the number of some inner city gangs. They shoot a lot more than the police. Now if you're not particular about methods then you can go even further. Ring up some dudes in Africa and see if you can get another civil war going on, or sp...
[16:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─Because why not? https://www.netknots.com [netknots.com] There are all sorts of types of knots it could have been based on the grainy pictures we have seen. Link has examples.
[16:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oracle's BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:33] <exec> 08└─Ooooh boy. Mass cancellations of every reader of Brietbart, CitizenFreePress, TheDrudgeReport, FoxNews, TheFederalist,DonaldJTrump, OneAmericaNews, TownHall, GAB, or any other double-plus ungood site. It's a dream come true.
[16:24:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 1919 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:09] <exec> 08└─This goes well beyond H-1B visas. So much of academia is built on exploitation, including the very thing you're describing. There are a lot of foreign grad students, many from China and India, working in university labs. Pay is almost always horrendous for grad students whether they're domestic or i...
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─It is well on time for the upcoming election.
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─That is the thing with socialists, every issue is but an excuse to advance an agenda. They will flip on any principle faster than you can think possible. Compare x before getting elected to x after election.
[16:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─Compare x before getting elected to x after election.
[16:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:33] <exec> 08└─Finally, that AC who is always bitching about there being no IT jobs . . .
[16:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:35] <exec> 08└─Major logic error here, if I say all x are y I don't imply that any not x is not y.
[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:23] <exec> 08└─Say it again. [youtube.com]
[16:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:24] <exec> 08└─10%? pffft that's what I give to my kids. Wake me up when you bring out the good stuff.
[16:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:26] <exec> 08└─If only smell was a barrier....you must not have been around very small kids... have you not seen kids putting their finger in their diaper and into their mouths ? Ask any parents.
[16:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:54] <exec> 08└─I would not (yet) have expected ARM CPUs in the top 500 list
[16:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:55] <exec> 08└─Much fewer for 8086. The ARM1 processor had about 25,000 transistors, the 80386 had about 275,000. 7 million is around the number for the Pentium Pro or the Pentium II.
[16:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:57] <exec> 08└─GPUs will be necessary for power, if not for performance. CPUs are not general-purpose processors. They are processors optimised for instruction sequences that have a lot of branches (on average, around one every 7 instructions), primarily doing integer compute, and with random memory access pattern...
[16:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:23] <exec> 08└─It's not likely Apple will allow booting other operating systems on their native hardware. So a Mac owner could run Linux in a VM - they demoed that feature - but it's not going to support user freedom in general or Linux on ARM in particular.
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[17:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:57] <exec> 08└─Ah, that explains the gnomes while on psychedelic mushrooms. I thought it was because of my desktop's softwares that I kept seeing those creatures.
[17:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:59] <exec> 08└─I'll see it when I believe it.
[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:20] <exec> 08└─> Circling The Square aka, casing the joint...
[17:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe we could line up all the satellites he's putting into space and send the particles from one satellite to the other, at each satellite speeding it up, all around the globe? Big magnets in space. No?
[17:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:23] <exec> 08└─I hope CPC-ee gets funded. At the moment I would say their design study is behind CERN's FCC study; they are basically designing the same facility.
[17:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:25] <exec> 08└─You do know that US already supported LHC, contributing several key components? And that CERN is supporting DUNE, the next big US high energy physics project?
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─Yes but the praise comes from people of today. Therefore that ugly woman is apparently considered beautiful by today's standards too. How anyone can find her beautiful is beyond me - or even enigmatic, she just looks dumb or stoned out of her mind to me.
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─A required knot for boy scouts looks like a noose. So does the finger hole on a fucking YoYo.
[17:24:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:09] <exec> 08└─Do *you* know the conditions? Have you ever wondered why there's entry level positions that require years of experience as well as experience with various industry-only tools and technologies, yet still pay entry level salaries? It's somewhat of a nonstarter. And that's intentional. "We tried and ad...
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:39] <exec> 08└─Is this an example of what you mean? https://video.twimg.com [twimg.com]
[17:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─We should be understood to be "We the people" not the shitty government that's increasingly incapable of navigating the 21st century.
[17:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:28] <exec> 08└─Apple does not understand the power of legacy application.
[17:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:30] <exec> 08└─Apple was already dead to me ever since it became impossible to boot Linux on the new Mac Minis
[17:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 2578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:32] <exec> 08└─This horse has been flogged so much that even the skeleton is disintegrating. Linux covers exactly two use cases. 1. An experience that is so curated that the user doesn't even know they're using Linux (eg: Android, ChromeOS, etc) 2. You really really love dicking around with your computer, and/or a...
[17:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:34] <exec> 08└─Thank you for demonstrating yet another reason why Linux will always be a failure as a desktop. Nothing sys, "This is the platform for me!" like having random assholes throwing insults at you because you arn't willing or able to invest hours of your life to figure out how to use an OS that was never...
[17:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 2391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:36] <exec> 08└─What do ARM provide? In the typical case ARM *do* provide Verilog to their partners. Typically one is not allowed to change the design although if you have a strong enough case (e.g. some kind of mismatch between the design of components that breaks a reasonable use-case) a waiver is possible. The C...
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[18:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:03] <exec> 08└─*clicks on SoylentNews article* I see trolls, lots and lots of trolls. RWNJs who are also being trolls. And a couple of very insightful ACs.
[18:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─I expect to see journals listed on the front page.
[18:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:06] <exec> 08└─When we lost access to a convenient proving ground, we installed lights, cycle fenders and other road equipment on a single seat car so we could continue testing on empty roads. Back and forth to our chosen testing areas, we used normal suburban roads for this *very* unconventional looking car--roug...
[18:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:08] <exec> 08└─Good to know I'm not the only one the slashbox is broken for.
[18:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:10] <exec> 08└─I never thought about it previously.
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─Probably they were just unconsciously driving, reacting without thought. I often find myself doing that while driving and listening to music.
[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─It's a waste of money: sane arguments that predicted the LHC would see the Higgs say that this new collider would be too small to see new physics. Arguments based on wishful thinking (which predicted that the LHC would see many dimensions and superparticles and other fancy stuff) say that maybe ther...
[18:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─This superhuman trait, which top tennis and baseball players may also share
[18:23:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─>> what the number is that I have to call to get the police to shoot some black people for me 9-1-1 in most locations.
[18:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oracle's BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─Only amateurs leave evidence, and even if they did, who's gonna tell?
[18:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:51] <exec> 08└─people who mod 'troll' just b/c they don't agree should be put ion the firing line.
[18:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:53] <exec> 08└─if they outsource jobs, shoot their CEOs in the face.
[18:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:55] <exec> 08└─yeah, or kick them out of the country and ban the import of their goods.
[18:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:57] <exec> 08└─Require that all H1B visa holders be paid $500K starting salary minimum. If these are truly the best and brightest people they deserve financial reward. That way companies cannot use them for cheap labor.
[18:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:59] <exec> 08└─Take the original line: That is the thing with socialists, every issue is but an excuse to advance an agenda. They will flip on any principle faster than you can think possible. Compare x before getting elected to x after election.
[18:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:51] <exec> 08└─God damn, you can't even admit when you're obviously whining and lashing out. Truly the narcest of cysts. Maybe you should run for POTUS.
[18:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:53] <exec> 08└─Jan? Yeah, he total whiner.
[18:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:55] <exec> 08└─"a toxic alcohol that can cause blindness if swallowed and systemic effects if absorbed through the skin" Last time I checked sanitizer is applied directly to the skin. Warning seems pretty relevant, or is there some magic common sense that allows you to know if some sanitizer contains dangerous che...
[18:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:56] <exec> 08└─And this doesn't count blatant screw ups like when Ubuntu 19 shipped with a known broken crypto library that effectively disabled Active Directory integration, and then proceeded to never correct. The fix required you to install replacement libraries from some random 3rd party repo, which is complet...
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[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─Highway hypnosis. Damn it always scares me when I get to my location and I don't remember actually driving there...
[19:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:10] <exec> 08└─If you don't tell the truth, we'll make shit up. Fuck you. One way or another we will get the facts. Of course I'm only telling this to people in authority. They are the ones we have to bring down.
[19:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what happened to that?
[19:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:14] <exec> 08└─more missing slashbox comments on the IRC channel (link on left of the home page).
[19:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:17] <exec> 08└─Get distracted by strange cars, and you'll smash into a flatbed truck and decapitate yourself.
[19:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:19] <exec> 08└─> while driving and listening to music Stereos in cars weren't all that great in the early 1980s (with the exception of a few hi-fi nuts). This was mid-day, middle-American suburbs, light local traffic--we stayed off the larger main roads on purpose to keep speed down when we were just transiting to...
[19:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe this is why optical illusions work. The visual system is presented with something novel. But having some real or perceived context in which to interpret it. Illusions I found most interesting are ones that induce perceived motion. With the Snakes [google.com] illusion, I've seen people argue t...
[19:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe this is why optical illusions work
[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:25] <exec> 08└─Optical illusions depend upon the brain misinterpreting what's going on. There are multiple ways in which that can happen, but in all cases it's the result of the brain improperly interpreting what it's seeing. As somebody with a brain that's particularly weak at processing visual stimuli, this arti...
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─exaeta went GBCW, and took the entire Journals section of the front page with him, evidently. So Sade! (He was French, you know.)
[19:22:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─funds for the project would have to be made available by participating countries in Europe and the U.K.—and this time, perhaps, from other countries such as the U.S
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─You do know that US already supported LHC, contributing several key components?
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:54] <exec> 08└─Wow, I lost 10 IQ points just reading the drivel you linked to. Seriously? A theoretical physicist not wanting to actually test and confirm her smart new ideas with tangible proof? Not actually get the proof but stay in the realm of "it could be or maybe not, we've never looked because spending mone...
[19:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:56] <exec> 08└─Not a bad idea, just to aid construction : Darn, missing the #3 micro wrench! shit there goes 2 hours , 45km back to the control room And back
[19:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:40] <exec> 08└─So we wait for the Twin Galaxies suit to be over and see if Guinness changes its mind once again. This forum post [donkeykongforum.com] convinced me pretty well, which someone else referenced the last time this subject came up. They'd probably be better off just leaving the section blank.
[19:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:41] <exec> 08└─From the summary I found on Wikipedia, the allegations appear to be questionable. I don't know whether or not his attempts were legitimate, but it's clear that he is a player of the caliber necessary to achieve those scores. Achieving a perfect Pac Man score isn't an easy accomplishment, but is cons...
[19:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:43] <exec> 08└─Yep, that was more or less my conclusion, the picture could show a noose, but it could also show a fair number of other loop knots as well, not to mention the possibility of it being some sort of spliced loop.
[19:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:46] <exec> 08└─As far as Guinness goes, one of the issues there is that they trusted a 3rd party to make the determination. Regardless of whether or not Twin Galaxies was operating in good faith based upon the evidence in hand, it seems illl-advised for Guinness to rely so much on a 3rd party certification when th...
[19:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:24] <exec> 08└─Well, there's no -1 Stupid or -1 Wrong, so....
[19:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:25] <exec> 08└─… So if it is really important right here and right now under COVID, why was it not really important three years ago? Oh.... desperately sucking up for votes. So one is a sucker for joining on the Trump train because he finds new ways to flex his racism. Gotcha.
[19:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:27] <exec> 08└─Good plan, then we can all retire to a life of starvation instead.
[19:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:30] <exec> 08└─When the economy was recovering and we were down around 4% unemployment pretty much everywhere was having an issue with hiring, my employer was unable to find a programmer and we offer 85k/year starting + pension + health care. We chose to not fill the position rather than push for a worker from Ind...
[19:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Freezes Green Cards, Many Work Visas Until End of Year - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:32] <exec> 08└─... Poe's Law man, Poe's Law.
[19:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ampere Announces Altra ARM CPUs with Up to 80 Cores, Going to 128 Cores by 2021 - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─It's not an economic problem, unless done to such excess as to prevent productive work being done. It's only a political problem depending on which political party is in power. Either the party that doesn't care about it, or the party that thinks it must be stopped at any cost. Some would view it as...
[19:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:56] <exec> 08└─There is no way that you could get the same number of FLOPS per Joule on something with register rename, caches, prefetching, and so on for graphics workloads as you could get from something optimised for this kind of use case. GPUs aren't fast and power efficient because of the things they add, the...
[19:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Beekeepers Reported Lower Winter Losses but Abnormally High Summer Losses - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:45] <exec> 08└─They're just going home. [fandom.com]
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[20:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Original Segway is Officially Being Retired on July 15 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:00] <exec> 08└─The dream, that is, of every lard-ass American to get from living room to McDonalds without having to move your legs.
[20:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Original Segway is Officially Being Retired on July 15 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:01] <exec> 08└─The main patents on the Segway are twenty years old now, and are therefore running out or already expired. The revenue possibilities are reduced as every little manufacturer can now flood whatever markets are left with cheaper clones.
[20:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Original Segway is Officially Being Retired on July 15 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:03] <exec> 08└─Home delivery, which has exploded during COVID, continues the dream, and soon drone delivery. Maybe even drone delivery directly to the food hole.
[20:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Original Segway is Officially Being Retired on July 15 - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:05] <exec> 08└─Seems to me the dream of every PR flack ever was fulfilled--some months before the original Segway was made public. It was code named "Ginger" (after the dancer Ginger Rogers) and made the cover of Time Magazine. Might have been a slow news week, but even then, getting a new product hyped to the poi...
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:31] <exec> 08└─Something is wrong. A bunch of aristarchus submissions were mass rejected for no reason!
[20:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─Everyone is seeing what they expect to, and given that expectations in most people are set by the media...
[20:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:34] <exec> 08└─That's not a bug, it's an enhancement request.
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─Can second as a space shield for rocks and unwanted visitors coming our way. Maybe also a beam weapon to get ride of those free loaders orbiting OUR Sun! Blast them to pieces and feed them to the Sun!
[20:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─It is not wishful thinking, it is science politics. LHC Director: Guys, it seems we have run out of ideas. What to do next? "Manager": I have an idea. Let's do the same again, but bigger and more expensive. LHC Director: Does not make any sense. OTOH, would guarantee my retirement. During building I...
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─Elite athletes often have reaction times faster than normal people. Have you tried the "drop a dollar bill and catch between two fingers" bar game? Here's one version, https://interestingengineering.com [interestingengineering.com] The narrator uses 0.2 seconds f...
[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:53] <exec> 08└─The old argument was pretty convincing, yes. The rebuttal in the new press release [apnews.com] however is not particularly convincing. It seems to center around the following quote from Todd Tuckey: What Twin Galaxies (new owners) asserts about Billy Mitchell’s score is simply not possible. There...
[20:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─That was an interesting post. The "will never" part of the quote is not terribly relevant to the particular situation, but if it proves to be wrong, it may be an issue for future record attempts.
[20:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Caters to China by Pulling Thousands of “Unlicensed” iPhone Games - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:14] <exec> 08└─If you want to do business in a country, you have to follow that country's laws. The fact that this story with its outrage was posted at all demonstrates that Millennials never learned that you are not above the law. They think from the past years in the Western world that following the law is compl...
[20:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle's BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:31] <exec> 08└─They are too busy catching fake terrorists to find every unsecured server out there.
[20:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:37] <exec> 08└─I've been working on it late into the night for the past 20 years, and still have a long way to go.
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[21:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:57] <exec> 08└─My latest journal entry has quite a long title, and I edited the title today (from "Part 2", to ", Supplemental") which made it even longer. Not sure how close that was to 17:45 UTC. I would have thought it was earlier. It probably has nothing to do with it but I just wondered if the titles overflow...
[21:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:58] <exec> 08└─Just tried shortening the title, and removing the punctuation, to "Humanity Failed Supplemental" and the journal box didn't come back, so I guess it was either nothing to do with that, or whatever broke stayed broken. :)
[21:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:01] <exec> 08└─Why is there so much?
[21:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:03] <exec> 08└─Apparently there's always that much spam, but it is filtered to just display users that have.... I don't remember specifically, but I think I saw once that they either have to have a positive karma or have posted a comment in a discussion.
[21:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:05] <exec> 08└─Probably not you. I recall seeing your journal post as well as Takyon's journal post, Fake Noose II: Electric Boogaloo, in the slashbox.
[21:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:07] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/journal.pl?op=top [soylentnews.org] No names under Top Recent Posters By Date, and Top Posters By Number of Entries.
[21:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:09] <exec> 08└─I was hiding in the server room, sneaking a smoke. I noticed one of the boxes with a label, "/dev/null" was unplugged. I plugged it in. Want me to unplug it?
[21:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:11] <exec> 08└─You should know better than to smoke around all these flammable elements like Sodium and Fluorine...and probably Oxygen too, although a quick search didn't turn up a ref to an SN server by that name.
[21:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:14] <exec> 08└─I'm suspecting a content encoding issue. If I click on your last journal and reply, the journal text itself doesn't show up. Click on this spammer [soylentnews.org] and then go to their last journal entry and nothing shows.
[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:16] <exec> 08└─Interesting to note on that page, it is not parsing year for anything posted in 2020 even though the formatting for the year is still present. Not sure if that is important, but maybe it is a perl library thing?
[21:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:18] <exec> 08└─My last journal entry was a detailed exposition of how millennials are being oppressed by Anonymous Cowards, and it's disappeared. Conspiracy! Censorship!
[21:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:20] <exec> 08└─Funny that it will render when looking at his journal but not while posting a reply.
[21:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Original Segway is Officially Being Retired on July 15 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─The dream, that is, of every lard-ass Troll (see above for example) to get from living room to McDonalds without having to move your legs.
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Original Segway is Officially Being Retired on July 15 - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─I grew up not far from Dean Kamen's stomping grounds, and was visiting the family for the holidays but had to stop in the local mall for some last-minute shopping. And I hear a "whoosh", and turn my head in time to see Kamen zooming through the mall on his prototype. I still think they're silly devi...
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Original Segway is Officially Being Retired on July 15 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─The Segway always felt a bit off in my mind, it looked kind of scarey to rid them -- fear of tipping over of something. That said I do think it opened up the current, electric-, scooter market -- those things seem to be all over the place now.
[21:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Original Segway is Officially Being Retired on July 15 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─The biggest reason for low adoption was the price.
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Original Segway is Officially Being Retired on July 15 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─Fat police officers and rent-a-cops are suddenly worried they might have to use their feet to patrol their areas.
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─What happened to your righeous indignation about websites canceling people? Don't tell me your morals and ideals only apply when convenient.
[21:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─We'll also need sharks with lasers. Lasers of course, to optically line up the satellites. And sharks, because sharks are cool. And what else to mount the lasers on?
[21:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:58] <exec> 08└─One man's meat, is another man's poison. I never thought she was very good looking. However - weren't there five women used to make that painting? Something I heard somewhere, maybe true, maybe not. If so, there was no Mona Lisa, the painting only epitomizes something about women that the painter fo...
[21:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:29] <exec> 08└─This org has them beat by a long shot. https://tinyurl.com [tinyurl.com]
[21:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:12] <exec> 08└─Still married after all this time? That's so rare these days.
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[22:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Hot Start" for Pluto May Have Allowed Early Formation of an Ocean - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:00] <exec> 08└─Who cares about some piece of rock on the other side of the universe.
[22:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Hot Start" for Pluto May Have Allowed Early Formation of an Ocean - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:02] <exec> 08└─Must be a pretty big rock if it's on the other side of the universe. The telescope to see it must be fucking gargantuan.
[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:21] <exec> 08└─Just don't flip the "more magic [catb.org]" switch.
[22:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:22] <exec> 08└─Yet the spammers Japanese text doesn't render when looking at his journal. Wondering if not all the code properly handles unicode or if there's another encoding managed to get to the db? I always use iconv, utf-8 in & out with //TRANSLIT flag to fix funky text encodings. The worst web app I ever wor...
[22:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:24] <exec> 08└─This is no malfunction, the disappearance of the journals widget was planned by the official kabal to annoy jmichaelhudsondotnet!!!
[22:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─Just pump the server bank power toggle really fast about 20 times. That primes the null bucket pathway to 0.0.0.0.
[22:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:11] <exec> 08└─My own righteous indignation can apply when it is inconvenient as well as when it is convenient. So I am consistent. Just as long as I can selectively apply it when I want it to -- whether convenient or not. I am able to (somehow) define that is "being consistent", since I always, consistently, sele...
[22:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:42] <exec> 08└─DUNE, the next big US high energy physics project
[22:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─Agreed. We queued up at the Louvre to see it and I was massively underwhelmed. There were far better works on display there. As I understand it, the Mona Lisa only became famous after being stolen [npr.org]
[22:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:38] <exec> 08└─I don't tie a monkey's fist - just a double square knot at the end of the rope. Like yourself, I worry that someone or something might get caught in a loop, that I don't want to be caught in the loop. Any sort of a loop in a non-stationary line says "snare" to me. Oh - the monkey's fist. I seriously...
[22:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:40] <exec> 08└─The photo isn't clear enough for my satisfaction. It doesn't appear to have 13 wraps. A hangman's noose is very distinctive. Does that knot even slide? No non-sliding knot can be called a "noose". In the two pics, the rope appears to be the exact same length, so that "noose" probably won't slide if...
[22:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:42] <exec> 08└─practically a Boomer
[22:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:44] <exec> 08└─The U.S. Census Bureau defines baby boomers as those born between mid-1946 and mid-1964
[22:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:46] <exec> 08└─In 100 years, boomer will have replaced the word old in common usage, and old will be marked by the OED as archaic.
[22:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:48] <exec> 08└─Well, that settles that. The Census Bureau certainly can't be wrong.
[22:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:31] <exec> 08└─Good lord you are showing your age. Got any "Japanese can't make good watches" jokes to follow that up with?
[22:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs - 2360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:04] <exec> 08└─That makes sense. That is the thing to use if you can arrange your problem around how it must be formulated to run on a GPU. If you have a branch rich set of code, this may not work well. As I understand it, suppose you can program your GPU kernel in C, with something like: if( foo ) { doThing...
[22:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:38] <exec> 08└─I hope you're right, that would make me feel a lot better about this. I'm worried the array of options for people wanting to install Linux or *BSD is starting to shrink - it's obviously far from dying, but this could be a big step in the wrong direction.
[22:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:40] <exec> 08└─With respect to "like the fore-mentioned total lack of polish." - I still do stumble over polish issues in Windows and my friends with Macs stumble over them in Macs. It's not as often, and not as severe, but to me it's a 100 times as infuriating that companies with quite literally more than 1,000 t...
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[23:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Hot Start" for Pluto May Have Allowed Early Formation of an Ocean - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:02] <exec> 08└─if large impactors buried their energy deep beneath the surface.
[23:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Hot Start" for Pluto May Have Allowed Early Formation of an Ocean - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:04] <exec> 08└─Pay no mind. Probably a Republican anti-vax geocentric flat-earther, whose concept of distance is as small as the Precedent's hands.
[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─1. That spammer journal is Korean, not Japanese. 2. It is a true spammer, advertising a gambling site. I'd call that a soylent squatting. 3. Very invalid Korean really can break some Unicode implementations, as well as some other scripts can. 4. Future wave of emoji accepted to the next standard may...
[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─Make sure to disconnect the UPS batteries first otherwise your priming efforts will be wasted. Did you want to prime everything in the rack or just the UPS?
[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:30] <exec> 08└─I can't repro it, but I could have sworn I just saw my mod stat box telling me I had "6 moderation points left" when I know I should have only had one. I used the one and the box disappeared like it should, so it looks like it's being tracked properly, but might be displayed incorrectly. Might be re...
[23:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site is Having Problems with Most-Recent Journal Entries - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─Those pesky Japanese Koreans. This is SN's Perl Harbor!
[23:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Role of Expectation in What We See is Stronger than Previously Thought, Study Finds - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:17] <exec> 08└─What happened to having sense of humor?
[23:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leonardo's 'Quick Eye' May be Key to Mona Lisa's Magnetism - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:11] <exec> 08└─Use the Italian spelling, monna, accenting the N, unless you want the Italians in the room to snicker. Monna = madonna = donna = domina = woman (domina because Latins knew who rules in the house) Mona = cunt (same root, unsurprisingly). Lisa = diminutive of Elisa but also, referring to cloth, "threa...
[23:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:32] <exec> 08└─He's clearly not French if he is put off by horrendous odors so easily.
[23:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Announces 2-Year Transition to ARM SoCs in Mac Desktops and Laptops - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:41] <exec> 08└─Will their ARM cpu allow you to run Windows 10? Since there is an ARM-version of that.
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