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[00:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:09] <exec> 08└─Had to look at a mirror, while space walking for buddha sakes. Fucking millenials, so vain, cosmetic cosmonauts.
[00:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:11] <exec> 08└─Losing a mirror in space will put a 30 day hex on mankind, because astronomers might look in the sky and see the back of the mirror which would show humanity's future backwards.
[00:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:13] <exec> 08└─How much is a space mirror then? 100k? 1M?
[00:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:38] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68008 [wikipedia.org] states that the 68008 (68000 with 8-bit data bus) was introduced in 1982, too late for IBM PC. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] states that the Intel 8088 was introduced in 1979, in time for the IBM PC.
[00:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03caseih [2744] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Because it's interesting and super nerdy. This is the kind of thing I loved reading about on slashdot. And actually anything Ken sherriff does and writes about is pretty neat. He's a brilliant engineer. Just watch the curiousmarc YouTube videos on reverse engineering and refurbishing a Soviet space...
[00:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:07] <exec> 08└─I had never heard of this before. You probably already know this info, but I found it interesting: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com [medicalnewstoday.com]
[00:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:08] <exec> 08└─When working normally our vascular systems do an amazing job of regulating BP in various parts of our bodies. Go from lying down, or bending way down, to standing up, and despite gravity pulling our blood into our legs, we don't faint. Hypertension and other maladies can mess with that system, as do...
[00:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:10] <exec> 08└─I was reading that before you posted. I'm glad to see that you are walking that back a little. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You probably aren't going to get accurate labeling of contents without some micromanagement, or otherwise a completely differen...
[00:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:33] <exec> 08└─Yes but did the police ever believe him?
[00:23:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zinho [759] 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 1266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:50] <exec> 08└─I'm in a remote enough area that the locals created their own electrical Co-Op back in the day so that the farms and other rural homes could get electricity, just like the big towns. If the local power plant wouldn't pay for wires to connect those homes, the community would just do it themselves. Th...
[00:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they underspent on hardware.
[00:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:19] <exec> 08└─Offer the bounty to your Marxist comrades at #BLM instead.
[00:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damascus Steel Can be 3D Printed - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:36] <exec> 08└─On top of that the blade gets differentially tempered (different parts cooled at different speeds, resulting in different properties in different parts of the blade)
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[01:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:08] <exec> 08└─Spacewalking astronauts wear a wrist mirror on each sleeve to get better views while working.
[01:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:10] <exec> 08└─4.494×10^15 joules
[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:12] <exec> 08└─Why isn't there mention of the tens of thousands of pieces of space junk that SpaceX and others want to launch over the next decade?
[01:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─You probably missed https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[01:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:16] <exec> 08└─If it's all about keeping that Space Junk in check, tighter shorts should do the trick.
[01:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:18] <exec> 08└─It's a good question. That money could have been spent on housing a few homeless guys for a few days. Oh the humanity!
[01:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03caseih [2744] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:44] <exec> 08└─Seriously? If you know anything about Ken sherriff you'll know he's a brilliant engineer who loves reverse engineering old things like space clocks and the history of it all.
[01:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:14] <exec> 08└─There is a lab-bred strain that have hypertension. They don't age well.
[01:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:15] <exec> 08└─Most cases aren't diagnosed as it's mostly harmless. The only reason I know is that I had a blood panel done for some other reason. It's not normally something that causes problems, but it does mean that if the liver gets damaged, there's less reserve ability as the liver itself is less efficient th...
[01:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:17] <exec> 08└─The rice contains natural ACE inhibitors which help to regulate blood pressure and don't have the side effects often associated with pharmaceutical ACE inhibitors such as "dry cough, headache, skin rashes and kidney impairment."
[01:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:24] <exec> 08└─This is rather old news, and posted in various other places, but if this list doesn't make you shudder in fear, there's something very wrong with you. https://www.idsnews.com [idsnews.com]
[01:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:29] <exec> 08└─True, the US didn't ally with Israel until 1974. The '70s oil crisis was Saudi Arabia's response to that change in policy.
[01:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:30] <exec> 08└─> Take American soldiers out of Afghanistan and put them into Washington, DC. Then offer them bounties for every protestor FTFY
[01:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damascus Steel Can be 3D Printed - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:48] <exec> 08└─This is the part that is just plain wrong. Damascus steel was not made by layering, and forge-welding and folding. Ignorance like this in an article allegedly dealing with steel metallurgy is not confidence inspiring. Of course, common usage has called pattern-welded steel "damascus" for quite some...
[01:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damascus Steel Can be 3D Printed - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:49] <exec> 08└─Elsewhere they say the pattern on the steel was from nanotubes https://www.nature.com [nature.com]
[01:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Ordered $10.2 Million in COVID-19 Testing Kits It’s Now Warning States Not to Use - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:29] <exec> 08└─Delivering something unusable isn't an improvement because people then have to waste time disposing of the garbage.
[01:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Ordered $10.2 Million in COVID-19 Testing Kits It’s Now Warning States Not to Use - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:30] <exec> 08└─They could very well be contaminated with Coronavirus from infected workers, or with other things that might screw up the testing (cause false positives and/or false negatives), or that might damage valuable equipment. And that all assumes that these tubes even fit in the testing equipment, which ap...
[01:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Bank Requires Foreign Firm to Install App With Covert Backdoor - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:24] <exec> 08└─Touché - the competition, or the race to the bottom, is on. It's a 3-way race between the Far East, the West, and the North, right?
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[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─Same difference: https://www.xda-developers.com [xda-developers.com]
[02:22:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 550 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:42] <exec> 08└─http://www.righto.com/p/about-ken-shirriff.html [righto.com] I'm interested in computer history and reverse engineering old chips. I am currently restoring a Xerox Alto. Some projects: Wrote the Arduino IRremote library for infrared remotes. Attempted Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 punch c...
[02:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:52] <exec> 08└─Proof yet again that letting them out into the community and not checking that they're taking their meds is a mistake, even if it's cheaper than keeping them in care.
[02:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:24] <exec> 08└─Thanks for this and the others posting in response. There is another case, people with naturally low blood pressure--I know a couple of people like this and they have to be pretty careful to not pass out when standing, etc. Something like this rice that lowers BP even more could be pretty dangerous...
[02:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:26] <exec> 08└─Well there's toxic natural stuff out there too that can affect susceptible people[1]. And there are also people who are allergic to stuff that the majority aren't - like peanuts. Which is why stuff for mass consumption (including mass vaccines) should be held to a higher standard of safety than norm...
[02:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:50] <exec> 08└─Russia also has dumped many old nuclear reactors at sea, sometimes with fuel and other radioactive material still in them, as well as plenty of other radioactive waste. Another likely possibility is that something has started to leak.
[02:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:51] <exec> 08└─a puff of air grabed the particle with non existant fingers "off the ground"
[02:24:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:04] <exec> 08└─See, my way actually saves money!
[02:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:37] <exec> 08└─It would also help a little if all of our politicians weren't too busy stabbing each other in the back to do any actual work.
[02:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:38] <exec> 08└─It's not that community networks fail, it's that the community networks are usually blocked at the state level [broadbandnow.com]. The telcos are pretty quick to get word of when and where and get there ahead of the groundbreaking and get ahold of the politicians.
[02:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:40] <exec> 08└─In addition to federal funding for broadband networks with speeds of at least 100Mbps downstream and upstream, the bill would eliminate state laws that prevent the growth of municipal broadband. There are currently 19 states [baller.com] [PDF] with such laws.
[02:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:47] <exec> 08└─Even better get the CIA to make it look as if Russians are sponsoring teh blacks to kill military the units who are tear gassing protestors in DC. It's so complex it's simple again.
[02:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Damascus Steel Can be 3D Printed - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:06] <exec> 08└─You are correct. I probably should have written differentially quenched. Having tried it so far I've only been rewarded with cracked blades. It's an odd feeling when you're holding a piece of steel as it is literally pulling itself apart...
[02:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damascus Steel Can be 3D Printed - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:08] <exec> 08└─The laser sintering process is continuous. Once one layer is sintered, the next layer is started before the first cools. It takes some time for the heat to escape. TFA isn't detailed, but apparently they used vatying pauses between layers to control how rapidly a new layer cools and how much it gets...
[02:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damascus Steel Can be 3D Printed - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, there have been many theories advanced about how they managed to get the steel to spontaneously arrange itself into a layered pattern, from serious theories to armchair guesses by people who have never forged anything and have no idea how. None have proven out. Some even theorize that it was in...
[02:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Addict Claims Hot Female Gamers Caused Him to Injure His Penis - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:21] <exec> 08└─Not after the first 2 or 3.
[02:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Addict Claims Hot Female Gamers Caused Him to Injure His Penis - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:22] <exec> 08└─I hope the legal system provides him with proper recourse for the injustice he suffered.
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[03:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:14] <exec> 08└─Scientists estimate the temperature of Gliese 887c to be around 70oC.
[03:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:16] <exec> 08└─Go? First there should be kilometer scale space telescopes to take a closer look and sort out the promising exoplanets from the garbage.
[03:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's also 11 light years away so I wasn't really being serious. I am however very serious about wanting human explorers travelling all around our own solar system.
[03:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:01] <exec> 08└─There is a large uranium mine in Estonia with a huge storage of nuclear waste. Estonians first sold it to an American company which went belly up I believe and since then it changed hands a few times. It's right on the shore. Here, this green thing in the middle is basically a slightly covered nucle...
[03:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:02] <exec> 08└─Used to say... was the advent of his silence coincidental with anything interesting?
[03:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:05] <exec> 08└─Don't feed the trolls... they might get gassy and go airborne.
[03:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:07] <exec> 08└─The fingers of air are quite powerful.
[03:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:09] <exec> 08└─I'm powerless to say.
[03:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:11] <exec> 08└─It's really cheap entertainment. But I guess it can get old. I'm relatively new to this online thing so I have some catching up to do. (seriously). So we need a mod for "trollbait"?
[03:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:13] <exec> 08└─See! I knew you'd admit it: Spinning! Centrifugal force sucked them right up in the air and spun them dry. Harumph.
[03:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:01] <exec> 08└─And ahead of Google Fiber -- a lucky friend whose neighborhood they're currently putting it in, talked to some of the workers. He got the impression that as soon as Google announces they're installing fiber in a neighborhood, the cable providers call up everyone in that neighborhood and offer them a...
[03:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damascus Steel Can be 3D Printed - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:29] <exec> 08└─> a combination of hardness and toughness. That is why I included two metrics in my post about 4340 > ultimate tensile of 1230-1380 mPa at an elongation of 10%. The elongation number relates to toughness, 0% elongation == glass, fractures without stretching. By carefully controlling the heat treat p...
[03:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Introduce "Balanced" Bill That Aims to End Warrant-Proof Encryption - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:46] <exec> 08└─The US government has asserted the right to regulate the export of encryption technology as a munition or as a weapon. Therefore I assert my right to encryption under the Second Amendment.
[03:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Introduce "Balanced" Bill That Aims to End Warrant-Proof Encryption - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:47] <exec> 08└─This gives me confidence: https://www.msn.com [msn.com]
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[04:24:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:52] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right, our soil is almost entirely sand and clay so rolling out this network was probably even easier than you thought. It didn't start out with the major providers but with small groups of subsidized enthusiasts. They began slowly but once the providers saw the potential profits a...
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[04:26:09] <exec> 08└─rDT was the best satire, but it really triggered the democrats here.
[04:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Working Towards Compostable Colorful Wrinkle and Dye Free Cotton Clothing - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:53] <exec> 08└─50 years ago, the key was to use a clothes dryer and remove the clothes from the machine immediately when it stopped moving, then hang them up. The tumble-drying meant micro-scale wrinkles everywhere, so they weren't really noticeable. Ironing gave a slightly better appearance, but meant that the cl...
[04:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Working Towards Compostable Colorful Wrinkle and Dye Free Cotton Clothing - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:55] <exec> 08└─Let me know when they can genetically engineer plaid.
[04:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Bank Requires Foreign Firm to Install App With Covert Backdoor - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:12] <exec> 08└─Umm, no, its all the way up for China, they hit rock bottom a while back during the whole socialism stint, didn't work, tweak and try again, they're few iterations in now. They're smart, they have massive amount of meat bags, use them, make them rich, export them and their services, place them in ot...
[04:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Bank Requires Foreign Firm to Install App With Covert Backdoor - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:14] <exec> 08└─Why would the Chinese be outraged? Their concept of government and separation of powers are quite different from the rest of the non-totalitarian world. Hence why a lot of them only see one side of the Huawei debacle, that is Chinese discrimination. Discussing anything about the Chinese government w...
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[05:22:30] <exec> 08└─That they would stop using "Earth" as a unit of measure when they find a planet. "Oh, I can't wait until we land on mini-Earth!" "Huh?" "Oh, I meant Mars, of course! It's just like Earth, only totally fscking different!" This plague is the "carbon-nanotube" of astronomy headlines.
[05:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:46] <exec> 08└─Also space sharks.
[05:22:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:55] <exec> 08└─The app should never have access to the clipboard. The clipboard should be serviced solely by the system, which should hand data to the app only when the user explicitly invokes the system to do so.
[05:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:00] <exec> 08└─Since the paradigms have shifted to where the end user is no longer privy to the schematics and source code of our stuff, we are ALL ignorant. Business and government are slowly but surely training us to sign blank checks and agree to lengthy documents. Often without reading them. Yet if we star...
[05:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:02] <exec> 08└─Your sarcasm detector must be malfunctioning today.
[05:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:04] <exec> 08└─It is against our business model therefore you are literally Hitler.
[05:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:56] <exec> 08└─1983 called. They don't want you back. More's the pity.
[05:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Introduce "Balanced" Bill That Aims to End Warrant-Proof Encryption - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:06] <exec> 08└─(Same Poster) I'm against the whole idea of a back door but if you're going to have one at least have it implemented so that only the courts can decrypt said data. It is cryptographically possible so long as there are no unintended leaks.
[05:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Addict Claims Hot Female Gamers Caused Him to Injure His Penis - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:04] <exec> 08└─You are looking into it too hard. It says that the short circuiting happened once as a result of his masturbatory emissions. It is easy to get a luck shot in once in a while if your computer desk is a metaphorical shooting range.
[05:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple’s New ARM-Based Macs Won’t Support Windows Through Boot Camp - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:04] <exec> 08└─Sadly the age of (relatively) mature software seems to be past and things are only getting worse, year by year. As for loss of market share - Chances are most people didn't purchase a mac with the intent of running Windows anyway. The bigger problem, to my point of view, is the damage this will do t...
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[06:22:34] <exec> 08└─If you r junk starts floating away, you have plenty more problems than tracking yet another item in orbit.
[06:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:15] <exec> 08└─You want know something funny about that dust cloud? Dust from Northern Africa is the major source of nutrient minerals for the Amazon rainforest canopy. Without occasional Sahara dust storms the Amazon jungle dies.
[06:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:11] <exec> 08└─rDT was so good at it I sometimes suspected he was actually one of Trump's writers practicing in what amounts to a deniable sandbox. Did any of them get fired around the time rDT stopped posting?
[06:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:12] <exec> 08└─You lying zionist shill. He told me that since I was the senior Liberty survivor on board he wanted to tell me in confidence what had actually transpired. He told me that upon receipt of our SOS, aircraft were launched to come to our assistance and then Washington was notified. He said that the Secr...
[06:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Introduce "Balanced" Bill That Aims to End Warrant-Proof Encryption - 3678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:57] <exec> 08└─You refer to zero-knowledge services. In these cases, a backdoor is 100% impossible. Defeats the purpose of what is sold in the first place. It might be technically possible, but only as a software update to the clients uploading the supposedly protected data. Which can be extremely problematic with...
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[06:27:59] <exec> 08└─(Same Poster) You can even have a system where two private keys are needed to decrypt the data and two separate entities, each with one private key, are needed to decrypt it. So you have the original encryption key. The original encryption key gets encrypted by a public key from entity one to genera...
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[07:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Polymer Easily Captures Gold Extracted From E-Waste - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:04] <exec> 08└─The gold recovery is of course a click-bait story. But I wonder how usefull it will be to use this to recover metals from polluted soils or just throw sea water over this stuff to collect the gold (and other metals) from that. Another things is, looking at the periodic table, the efficiency of recov...
[07:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:18] <exec> 08└─Without occasional Sahara dust storms the Amazon jungle dies.
[07:25:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:21] <exec> 08└─sunk cost fallacy
[07:26:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:00] <exec> 08└─Illuminati and freemasons too I heard.
[07:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:17] <exec> 08└─You don't have to wait until then. The Democrats, MIC, and Israelis clearly want the USA to go to war in Iran. "Boys go to Baghdad, Real men go to Tehran" Sometime in November you guys get to make an unenviable decision. Do you want Senile Evil or Stupid Ego?
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[08:23:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, rats can cough and the sound is quite distinctive. You can probably find a video on your search engine of choice. Headaches can be determined through behaviors, such as light avoidance, head scratching and food avoidance, measures of neurotransmitters, measures of certain hormones and metabolit...
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[08:25:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not as much interested in whether or not the Russians are doing this as I am in who is pushing the story in the American media at this time and what atrocity that is about to be committed by American forces is going to be justified by it.
[08:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:23] <exec> 08└─You double pasted into the link. "This article" [jewishcurrents.org] FTFY.
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[09:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:16] <exec> 08└─So this is their admission that they took a bad step with Perl 6 then?
[09:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I guess the difference is I lived through it and the trade rags were full of stories on how they shrunk the die, which processes worked and which didn't, etc. It was interesting then and, I suppose if you're too young to have lived through it, it would be interesting now.
[09:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:41] <exec> 08└─Or ya know, the guy actually believed what he wrote was correct and instead views people calling him a troll as some sort of cognitive dissonance thing. What he said was technically incorrect, but involved a whole heck of a lot more thought than most people put into most topics now a days. This is t...
[09:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:43] <exec> 08└─maybe GP was simply drunk or high?
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[10:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:10] <exec> 08└─Perl 6 had too many breaking changes from 5, that they decided to treat it like its own language and added even more changes people thought were long overdue. Hence they changed the name of what used to be 6 to "Raku." They are also skipping this version to 7 to skip the issue of people running into...
[10:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:11] <exec> 08└─Do what I say. As long as the two are the same, then that motto is fine. The moment they're different, it's not.
[10:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:13] <exec> 08└─That's when you fall back on the other motto: TIMTOWTDI.
[10:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:54] <exec> 08└─There are so many bits of junk floating around in space, and little ones like this only last for a short time, maybe a year, probably less. Astronauts drop tools from time to time. It's not a big deal.
[10:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:29] <exec> 08└─Go back to the Covid and politics articles then.
[10:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:30] <exec> 08└─This is true, if you have an incredibly oversimplified model of a zero-sum economy. It can also be true in practice in some cases. The goal of subsidy is to address inefficiencies in a system to increase tax revenue. There's a load of research in economics that shows that investing in communications...
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[10:27:27] <exec> 08└─Done. That pattern is woven in. Or did I just get wooshed? :-)
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[11:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I had completely missed the Perl6->Raku bit.
[11:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:13] <exec> 08└─I would add that Perl6/Raku has been out for 4.5 years, and it's spectacular. Performance was terrible with the initial release, but now it's within 2x of other scripting languages in most cases and ahead in a few, and more optimizations are in development. You get much simpler and more consistent s...
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[11:22:37] <exec> 08└─https://earthsky.org/space/europa-ocean-habitable-goldschmidt-conference [earthsky.org]
[11:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:38] <exec> 08└─Yes that sounds like a reasonable explanation to the typo cause I doubt a planet that had the surface temperature of 700C would be classified as 'earth-like' or be able to sustain life as we know it -- considering most things would either be molten, boiling or gas at that point. Still I'm not sure I...
[11:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:07] <exec> 08└─I don't mind the FDA micromanaging the labeling to ensure it's complete and accurate but I don't want them micromanaging the content. I also don't really believe the FDA has the public interest in mind. They are a very corrupt organization with a lot of conflicts of interest. But I know I have my ow...
[11:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Addict Claims Hot Female Gamers Caused Him to Injure His Penis - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:29] <exec> 08└─The marketing company behind this frivolous lawsuit should be fined for abusing the judicial system
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[12:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:15] <exec> 08└─It's a minority party bill in an election year. They can pass whatever they want you to believe they stand for in the House with no danger at all that it'll actually become law.
[12:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:17] <exec> 08└─As noted, by Upstart, I guess if this even becomes a thing then you'll have private security company do it instead and then law enforcement will just buy or subscribe to their service for facial recognition. There are a lot of multi-national security corporations that do everything from guarding to...
[12:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:19] <exec> 08└─The genie is out of the bottle. Facial recognition already exists and is already being used. Soon even your box of Frosted Flakes will recognize your face. The best we can really hope for, and should demand, is complete transparency in how and when facial recognition or similar technologies are used...
[12:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:31] <exec> 08└─You and everybody else. That's because nobody cares about Perl 6. It doesn't make the news.
[12:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Polymer Easily Captures Gold Extracted From E-Waste - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:40] <exec> 08└─Find people who shit gold and then tap into their sewage pipe.
[12:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:58] <exec> 08└─Average on Earth is 15°C (59°F). Antarctica average ranges from about -10°C on the coast to -57°C inland. It might mean you can get away with living in a polar region. Or more likely, the planet will be tidally locked to the red dwarf, so you pick a location on the far side. You might need thous...
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[12:22:59] <exec> 08└─Naturally. If the 70C mention is the average, it probably is. So there will be places that are cooler, it would have to be a lot cooler tho but since it's the average there will then also be places that are even warmer. Question might be if there is a spot where it goes so low as say 20-30C which is...
[12:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:18] <exec> 08└─>> It's not a big deal. Say that again after a space wrench hits you on the head.
[12:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:54] <exec> 08└─How else are you going to keep those internet tubes clean?
[12:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Addict Claims Hot Female Gamers Caused Him to Injure His Penis - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe he'll file frivolous lawsuits for money, like if a marketing agency wants to attract attention to a marginal lesser known service such as twitch
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[13:22:10] <exec> 08└─You worry more than I do, man. I fully expected to run a loss this fiscal half when I suggested extending subscriptions. A one-third loss would knock our rainy day fund down from about six months of operation at current expenses to about four months. We could live with that in the name of doing our...
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:20] <exec> 08└─Whoaa! Better avoid Frosted Flakes, then.
[13:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:22] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that. The entire point is you won't be able to avoid facial recognition. You will have your face scanned dozens of times just to buy food.
[13:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:24] <exec> 08└─Not when we're all wearing plague masks.
[13:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:26] <exec> 08└─Bloody stupid assertion. You could make the same argument about dumping toxic waste in rivers. Just because something is being done does not mean it can not be legally curtailed.
[13:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:28] <exec> 08└─Facial recognition is no match for face masks, but things are changing fast [venturebeat.com] Even mask-wearers can be ID'd, China facial recognition firm says [reuters.com]
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 3485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─The most likely thing that happens to Perl in the next 30 years is that it follows the footsteps of COBOL. People completely stop using it for new projects, but there are still tens of millions of lines of legacy code in use and requiring maintenance. But this is the first step of what could be a Pe...
[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Polymer Easily Captures Gold Extracted From E-Waste - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─Quite: "The researchers say the polymer costs about $5 per gram to produce, and that gram can capture $64 in gold. And since the polymer can be reused, it would be considerably cheaper than that over time, adding little to the overall cost of a recycling operation." "Although other tests showed that...
[13:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Polymer Easily Captures Gold Extracted From E-Waste - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─‘Junkyard Gold Rush’ starring Yeongran Hong and Parker Schobble
[13:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─I don't know what temperatures would be like on the tidally locked dark side, but it could mean almost no seasonal variations. If temperatures are reasonable and the atmosphere and "soil" is compatible, maybe crops could be grown outside but with lamp towers stimulating photosynthesis. In any case,...
[13:24:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03caseih [2744] 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─Because it's interesting and super nerdy. This is the kind of thing I loved reading about on slashdot. And actually anything Ken sherriff does and writes about is pretty neat. He's a brilliant engineer. Just watch the curiousmarc YouTube videos on reverse engineering and refurbishing a Soviet space...
[13:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tokolosh [585] 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:37] <exec> 08└─One person's subsidy is another person's tax. Any time someone gets something free or at a reduced rate, someone else has to pay tax or a higher price.
[13:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:11] <exec> 08└─It's not a matter of size, it's a matter of population density. It doesn't matter if the area is ten times as big if the cost is amortised over ten times as many people. The USA likes to use the low mean population density as an excuse for being behind other countries in broadband roll out. I'd acce...
[13:26:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 284 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:19] <exec> 08└─I've asked my good friend Vladimir and he's reassured me that this has all been cooked up by the fake news media, which is why we never took any action. Did I tell you about how big my inauguration was? Bigger than any president in history. And largest electoral college majority too.
[13:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:24] <exec> 08└─Except Canada seems to have succumbed to the copyright extension in the NAFTA replacement.
[13:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Working Towards Compostable Colorful Wrinkle and Dye Free Cotton Clothing - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:11] <exec> 08└─They had clothing back then?
[13:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Ordered $10.2 Million in COVID-19 Testing Kits It’s Now Warning States Not to Use - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:33] <exec> 08└─It would cost you more to test them to find out than they are "worth". Contaminants tend to really mess up any kind of testing, especially if you're testing for things like a certain DNA signature. There's a reason that labs, tests, solutions, glassware, etc. are all kept sterile - it's not for the...
[13:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Introduce "Balanced" Bill That Aims to End Warrant-Proof Encryption - 2255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:14] <exec> 08└─It's not about the strength of the crypto, it's about who the endpoints are. eCommerce depends on strong end-to-end crypto, but one endpoint is a major corporation that is subject to search warrants. Most email services depend on strong encryption, but the endpoints include servers, at least one of...
[13:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Addict Claims Hot Female Gamers Caused Him to Injure His Penis - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:15] <exec> 08└─It's a fun idea, but unlikely. Twitch is already well known among its target demographic, and generating a frivolous lawsuit to drum up publicity is just too weird to come up with and incompatible with the views of staff.
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[14:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:21] <exec> 08└─Sea tietl. RIP MDC
[14:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I miss him too. He was one of my favorite kinds of crazy.
[14:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:24] <exec> 08└─warplife.com is no more :(
[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─"Worried" is not the word I would use. Each of the members of our board of directors, Matt and Michael, put up $5,000.00 to get us started as a PBC (Public Benefit Corporation). Partly so that SoylentNews could accept subscriptions and become self-supporting. But primarily so that nobody can just sh...
[14:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─I surmise most (all?) of the $ goes to hosting fees? If that's true, have you considered reducing the cost, including less costly hosting somewhere else?
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:43] <exec> 08└─Please do try to curtail it, but there are so many other tracking technologies already in places where they really should not be, it seems like ubiquitous facial recognition is inevitable. Dumping toxic waste kills people. People won't complain about facial recognition when they are presented with "...
[14:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:59] <exec> 08└─I care about it. It deeply comforts me that Perl 6 was given the boot. It took all the ease and utility goodness of Perl and Python'd it into a cocktacular mess.
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─Dude, if you want Python just use Python. There are plenty of us who know why Perl is way, way more useful for specific tasks. Perl6 staying in the formal release chain would have killed that utility.
[14:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:02] <exec> 08└─You wish. Perl, unlike COBOL, still has things that it is the absolute best language for. Even for brand new projects. It doesn't matter if it's the most all-around useful language or not, so long as it's the best at what it was made for. And it still is.
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─When I last tried Perl 6, some 3 years ago, it was dog slow. Just to read in a 100M file, one byte at a time, took 20 minutes. Same program in C took 2 seconds. Good to hear that they've optimized. Wonder how fast it could read 100M now? I saw the Perl 6 -> Raku name change a few months ago. The fa...
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dmbasso [3237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─If it had "Python'd" as you said, the language would be successful, as Python 3 is. But in actuality, Perl is not even a blimp in the radar, with less than 1% usage.
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─"Dude, if you want Python just use Python" There are many many programming patterns that work in other languages that don't work in Python. Python is mostly useful because it is trivial to export C++ API's into Python. If it was even remotely near as easy in Perl, there would be no Python. For the p...
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─And about a similar development from that age, I expect to hear about IPv8 soon.
[14:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─Some time in the past, we learned "scary things" like C, C++, Perl, assembly, etc. and thought nothing about it. Those tools were to HELP us do things that we needed done, is all. Is the new generation born damaged in the brain, or is the braindamage dealt them by their early education?
[14:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:15] <exec> 08└─Wow that is nice. I love perl, but the big hangup was always XS. It was a huge PITA to write glue code for existing well documented libs. Raku seems to have fixed that with the nativecall() function. If it works, then it deprecates Perl, Python and a couple of others. Imagine having a language with...
[14:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:07] <exec> 08└─It's a big deal for the tool ! Gosh you people are so insensitive...
[14:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:43] <exec> 08└─AMD has made some disastrously stupid moves, like overpaying for ATI, but selling off their fabs and contracting to companies that are more specialized in fabrication has been working out very well for them so far. We'll see if that remains the case. But, at least they're not Intel. Intel jumped the...
[14:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:45] <exec> 08└─That's a common misconception. Closing down the large psychiatric hospitals was a good move. The problem was that they did it to shift spending from the feds to the state government and failed to ensure that the people being let out of the institutions were able to find space in smaller group homes...
[14:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:47] <exec> 08└─The main reason that Intel made the decisions that they did was that they were behind and needed to throw a computer together quickly. As a result they used a bunch of off the shelf components and made the decision to allow MS to license their software to other computer manufacturers. Whether or not...
[14:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:49] <exec> 08└─TBH, I work at a publicly facing job and I'm rather sick of people talking about Covid. If I haven't already had it, I will get it at some point as the number of times I get exposed each week is just too high for me not to get it. I'm definitely with you that having something, just about anything, t...
[14:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─This is also why there are typically lists that come with vaccines of whom it shouldn't be given to. If I were a few years older, I wouldn't have been able to receive the small pox vaccination due to skin problems and my brother had a reaction to the MMR vaccine and was only able to get two of the d...
[14:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:28] <exec> 08└─The FDA was created because it turns out that companies need to be micromanaged. Before the FDA there were outright poisons being put into patent medicine and there was no telling what sort of toxins were making their way into the food supply due to a lack of care or as an intentional additive.
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[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─I didn't say it was a bad thing. It's handy to have someone who worries more than yourself around. Saves you a serious toe-stubbing sometimes.
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─Will I receive a t-shirt and a photo of the poor underfed Soylenter I saved?
[15:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:21] <exec> 08└─Hosting, domain names, taxes, and the CPA. The vast majority goes to hosting. We could trim down what we pay now but we'd have to sacrifice something to do so. Could be services, could be uptime and redundancy. The community seems large and willing enough to foot the bill at the moment but we can tr...
[15:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:23] <exec> 08└─Thank you, very clear and informative. How about a less costly host?
[15:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:25] <exec> 08└─We could probably score you a naked picture of EF. Honestly, the trick is not getting a naked picture of him.
[15:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:27] <exec> 08└─For the reliability/utility vs. cost ratio, I really haven't found one superior enough to warrant a move. Feel free to drop a name or two though.
[15:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─Eh, helps to not use the fund where y'all can though ;) Money's been a bit tighter lately, but soylent finally got a subscription out of me.
[15:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:32] <exec> 08└─I'll probably get a subscription. But I'm not going to run Folding@Home because it's proprietary software. They have refused to open source the client, so I don't trust it.
[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─I don't have any data because I admin and I'm biased.
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─If that's true, have you considered reducing the cost, including less costly hosting somewhere else?
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─MAKE THE BEGGING STOP MAKE THE BEGGING STOP $120
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─Please do try to curtail it, but there are so many other tracking technologies already in places where they really should not be, it seems like ubiquitous facial recognition is inevitable.
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:55] <exec> 08└─But my freedoms! And Hillary's emails!
[15:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─For the record, I prefer Perl to Python/PHP/Ruby, and yes I'm familiar with all four. If two tools can accomplish a given task and one is harder to learn than the other, what possible reason is there for learning the harder one? I already know Perl, I don't need Python. But for someone new to progra...
[15:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:22] <exec> 08└─Not to be argumentative, but imho very little in computing is successful because it's truly better. Non-technical business people often make the decisions about what technologies to use, often completely at odds with technical staff. Those idiots wouldn't tell their plumber or auto mechanic which to...
[15:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:24] <exec> 08└─I like Perl, I like Python, and Raku blows them both to hell. As I said, it covers all of the territory occupied by Perl, Python, C#, and Java and most of the territory occupied by Scala and Haskell. The only place Raku isn't prepared to compete is maximum performance computing - C, C++, Fortran, AT...
[15:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:26] <exec> 08└─IIRC, perl does pattern / string stuff better. I'm not doing enough coding to have a feel for this, but how does this factor in? https://www.infoworld.com [infoworld.com]
[15:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Polymer Easily Captures Gold Extracted From E-Waste - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─"The researchers say the polymer costs about $5 per gram to produce, and that gram can capture $64 in gold. And since the polymer can be reused, it would be considerably cheaper than that over time, adding little to the overall cost of a recycling operation."
[15:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─The impression I get: The people who go into science journalism are journalists, not scientists, so they generally react to science stories with "Math is hard, please explain it to me without any of that weird technical stuff like 'a circumference of 27,000 miles'". And that's why you could make rep...
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:01] <exec> 08└─This other gliese will one day be Earth’s nearest neighbor https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:36] <exec> 08└─Okay I was fully expecting the list to be full of sketchy no-name apps, but the list has big names from major corporations that really should know better. Well, I suppose I'm not TOTALLY surprised that EA apps are pulling this stunt... It is EA after all... But all those major news apps? The Weather...
[15:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:38] <exec> 08└─Literally every mutlitasking operating system on the planet operates like this. Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS... If it has a GUI with clipboard functionality, then all application have access to said clipboard. That was the whole *point* of having a clipboard. And that clipboard has worked wel...
[15:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:40] <exec> 08└─Says the guy who can't figure out how to use the 'login' button. Enjoy your vodka, Russian Troll.
[15:26:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 513 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─It's not that community networks fail, it's that the community networks are usually blocked at the state level [broadbandnow.com]. The telcos are pretty quick to get word of when and where and get there ahead of the groundbreaking and get ahold of the politicians. After some quick work they end up b...
[15:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:22] <exec> 08└─Right, because it's totally conspiracy fodder to think that our primary competition for proxy control of the region since WWI is also investing in the region. Next you'll tell me the U.S. isn't investing in extending regional control either, and we all just imagined the last several wars we fought t...
[15:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:23] <exec> 08└─Your sarcasm detector needs tuning.
[15:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:26] <exec> 08└─I had the feeling that Big People at SN told him to go away because too many people were getting butthurt.
[15:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:28] <exec> 08└─I thought he was funny, and defended him, right up until he got caught mod-sturbating with all his sockpuppets.
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[16:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:20] <exec> 08└─there's no money in malware for linux desktop. It's not that it doesn't exist, it's that it's too much effort to have a second version of your attack page to deliver it. Gotta keep those development costs down in your ukranian sweatshop
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─> before you get excited Pretty sure that is the opposite response most folks had. This is so sites with moronic rules like all hosts must be protected by antivirus, and we have standardized on windows defender can now use non-windows hosts. For the rest of the world, who cares? The only worry I hav...
[16:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's a typo. I'm sure TF Author meant "hysterical" not "excited" (grin)
[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─it's software from one of the two biggest vendors of surveillance OS.
[16:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:28] <exec> 08└─But... It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside (https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/06/27/024251) knowing MS is there to protect you.
[16:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─This might sound silly, but I do not have a credit card [anymore]. Maybe: IBAN account? Maestro?
[16:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─I've offered to host. Not enough?
[16:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─If that's true, have you considered reducing the cost, including less costly hosting somewhere else?
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hman [2656] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─(subscribed a year) IIRC you can have paypal with Iban money transfer somehow, don't remember how though or how long ago that was. If you are willing check the fine print on the paypal site and report back please :-)
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Brymouse [11315] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─I've been reading Soylent for some time. Never subscribed. I just subscribed. Thanks guys!
[16:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─Someday I'll stop replying to you ACs. Sadly some of you are good people. Your post is condescending, and strongly worded as such. I've considered all kinds of things- what's it to you? Drink lousy coffee if you wish- it's irrelevant to me. I can ask anything I want to, and your attempt at belittlin...
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─Implement auto downmod for millenials' posts, and I will dig up the couch for some changes.
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─I did run F@H for many months earlier in the year on a few CPUs. The watts contribute to heating the house, so no loss there. I tried to give my "points" to SN, but for some reason at least 1/2 went to some other group. I was unable to get any help with it. I uninstalled and re-installed, removing a...
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─I already have the poster size goatse. So... only if it's autographed.
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:27] <exec> 08└─They can say whatever they want, just paint some eyes on it [pinimg.com]. Even better, make the mask reflective, the CV will have troubles of recognizing where my face ends.
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─That will just flag you for intense scrutiny since almost nobody will do that. Also, gait recognition [apnews.com] and other tools will get you.
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─That will just flag you for intense scrutiny
[16:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:58] <exec> 08└─I think the jump to Perl 7 is so that if someone did a web search for "Perl 6 do X" they don't get code snippets from Raku instead of for Perl 6. I just tested file IO and you're correct, it is horrifically slow. Small files are fine - I have a web media server written in Raku running right now with...
[16:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:55] <exec> 08└─You mean the space junk that won't be launched to an orbit where it will stay there forever, where the catastrophic failure mode, is it will de-orbit on it's own in a few years, that space junk?
[16:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:52] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, it is possible to cause large scale effects on the ionosphere using high-altitude nuclear bombs, including "wobbles" in the earth's magnetic field: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://glasstone.blogspot.com
[16:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:53] <exec> 08└─Better reference (for magnetic field anomalies etc): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com [wiley.com]
[16:27:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:02] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be easier to just hand the telco's a check for $100B and be done with it? We all know that's what's going to end up happening if this passes anyway. They take the money, nothing gets built, and they are not held accountable. Rinse/repeat.
[16:27:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06$100 Billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed by Congress - 779 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:26] <exec> 08└─For quite some time it's been obvious that you cannot allow a for-profit entity to control the infrastructure on things like this. It invariably seems to lead to monopolistic behavior that hurts the citizens in general. Telecom infrastructure should be nationalized with private companies being respo...
[16:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:02] <exec> 08└─US shouldn't have any control anywhere in Eurasia. Period. Nobody wants those moronic Mongol wannabes here. As the saying goes "Yankee go home". Who else takes over for them doesn't matter. But it's more likely to be China or India than Russia.
[16:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Bank Requires Foreign Firm to Install App With Covert Backdoor - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:18] <exec> 08└─You raise an interesting question: What WOULD "rock bottom" mean for the West? Well, there's the Mafia. Al Capone, and today's more modern drug cartels operating out of Mexico, primarily. There's that "company town" in the southeast, where the company owned every square inch of land in the city - an...
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[17:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:10] <exec> 08└─That fuzzy feeling may not be what you think it is.
[17:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─Valid. It may bring some centralized management and control which is a big plus in those environments (Yes management, all corporate systems have pattern xxyyzzz.abc which mitigates vulnerability qqqqqq.) Sounds like they don't fully agree on the audience however: Make sure to turn on preview...
[17:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:14] <exec> 08└─I suspect it's the fever accompanying COVID19.
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─There are corporate networks to which you cannot login, unless you are running an "approved" antivirus, and other "security" software. In the past, that basically meant, you don't login unless you're running Windows. This may mean that you can log in, but that doesn't mean that your computer is any...
[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:18] <exec> 08└─Why an acronym that's one transposition away from APT - Advanced Peresistent Threat?
[17:22:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─We could probably score you a naked picture of EF. Honestly, the trick is not getting a naked picture of him.
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 2115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─Not sure if these low-end vms would be useful / lower costs enough to be worth it, but oracle-cloud has an offer of 2 free vms without an expiration date, "free forever". https://www.oracle.com [oracle.com] 1G ram each 2 virtual cores, but the guarantee is the total is 1/8th of a physica...
[17:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─That said, if someone has had a good experience with a US-based provider
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─Demand the scratch and sniff version.
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─How does that help those of us that read at -1?
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Implement auto downmod of the above idiot's posts and I'll dig up some actual bills.
[17:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─Don't let the trolls get you down. You've contributed a lot to this community, just in your comments alone.
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─You're much too kind to be AC. :) Thank you. I really only wish to contribute. Trolls like to nip at the ankles, but when you kick at them, they crawl back under the bridges. I just don't like having to kick, know what I mean?
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─Do as you see fit. I have made accomodations for some non-free software. If you want to run CUDA, you're probably going to install non-free binaries anyway. Nvidia has a lot of open software, but to install the driver and all of the CUDA software, you have to accept some non-free stuff. There's no n...
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─That is only silly, in view of the fact that Gubbermint is going to stop writing checks soon. If you don't have a card, you won't get any benefits at all. NOTE: I'm only half joking. Applying for unemployment benefits in Arkansas automagically gets you a debit card, with which you withdraw your fund...
[17:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:28] <exec> 08└─Masks on people good. Make it simple to pillage, plunder, conquer, & destroy.
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:30] <exec> 08└─the libertarian is sooooo close to getting it
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:59] <exec> 08└─There must be some things I misunderstand in their IO subsystem. I took a random 100MB file and this C program (my C is rusty, I just downloaded it and hacked it until it worked): #include struct rec { unsigned char x; }; int main() { int counter; FILE *ptr_myfile; struct rec my_record; ptr_myfile...
[17:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:37] <exec> 08└─Gliese catalogued all stars within 25 parsecs of Earth https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:20] <exec> 08└─Trying to micromanage me (especially with the intend of making me pay more for something that occurs naturally or for banning naturally occurring substances with the intend of making me pay more for pharmaceutical alternatives) is the problem. I have every right to decide if I want RYR with more tha...
[17:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:22] <exec> 08└─(BTW, I'm not on any statins or anything, I have no health problems AFAIK thank God, and I do think the FDA is important, I just don't think the FDA has a right to force its will on anyone the way it does. There are so many things wrong with the FDA and the FDA would be far more restrictive if the l...
[17:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:02] <exec> 08└─The ones that fell on me were still plenty wet... Waterspouts / dust devils / tornadoes are really wild things, I believe they're a sort of manifestation of the Bernoulli principle (blowing across the end of a tube creates suction in the tube), but in a much messier 3D volume of compressible gasses...
[17:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.businessinsider.com/john-bolton-threatened-family-of-brazilian-diplomat-iraq-war-2002-2018-3?op=1&r=US&IR=T [businessinsider.com]
[17:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:12] <exec> 08└─About 15 years ago it became clear that John 'Yellowcake' Bolton was one of the key players in the complete fabrication of evidence and countless lies, under oath, that led us into the completely pointless Iraq War from which we seem yet still unable to extricate ourselves. Imagine somebody trying t...
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[18:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:07] <exec> 08└─>using an[sid][sic] Anyway, a virtual debit card with numbers and limits unique to any transaction help limit the risks.
[18:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:08] <exec> 08└─Federal law limits my risk, which is then nullified by voluntary agreements of the issuer.
[18:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:10] <exec> 08└─Good ol' one time pad. It is the only encryption that actually works :-) an "ess-eye-dee"
[18:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─To use Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux, you'll need the Microsoft Defender ATP for Servers license. If you don't have one, you can sign up for a free trial of Microsoft Defender ATP.
[18:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:29] <exec> 08└─Headline should read: Microsoft Releases Defender *APT* for Linux (Thanks Wikipedia) An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a stealthy computer network threat actor, typically a nation state or state-sponsored group, which gains unauthorized access to a computer network and remains undetected for an...
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─Who in their right mind would ever consider anything offered by Oracle?
[18:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─You know you've really arrived when you attract your own personal trolls. It's a rite of passage.
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should have a bitcoin mining app we can run on spare cycles to fund Soylent's hosting expenses.
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─I need a 'humorously insightful' mod for you. I'm laughing, but it's a dubious distinction- I don't know whether to laugh or cry. There's a saying: 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' but I think I'd rather be less known, or at least be able to pick and choose my trolls. I've tried intentionall...
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03crm114 [8238] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─SN is a part of my daily routine. Thanks for the reminder.
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─unless you have an ASIC based mining rig, the poor hash/watt ratio of mining on a regular CPU withan "app" means you're essentially throwing away orders of magnitude more money on electricity than what you're contributing toward mining any bitcoins, so don't do that... :) much better to just send re...
[18:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:44] <exec> 08└─Soon even your box of Frosted Flakes will recognize your face.
[18:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:45] <exec> 08└─The life of a spook will become more difficult. A location where a spook might visit, a foreign embassy, or meeting place with Bad Guystm, might have facial recognition. Now those bad people might detect the spook person, maybe years later, using facial recognition, as they go about other spook jobs...
[18:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─But my freedoms!
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Polymer Easily Captures Gold Extracted From E-Waste - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─There was a company that replaced old carpets in dentists' offices for free, and was quite profitable. It made its money by mining the old carpets for gold. Yes, god dust from fillings ended up sequestered in the carpets.
[18:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:26] <exec> 08└─Why would Russia do this? Start up a campaign to pay people to pick off a foreign soldier, American or otherwise, here and there? How many would they likely be able to get in a year, and how would that benefit Russia? Sounds very unlikely. Maybe a better question is who would benefit to make up a su...
[18:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:27] <exec> 08└─You left out drug dealing/trafficking.
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[19:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─> loaded the card skimmer using an[sid][sic] header tag That's sick.
[19:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:11] <exec> 08└─Kelloggs Corn Flakes, big, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're not small, no, no, no!
[19:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:13] <exec> 08└─Upon closer inspection we found that extraneous code had been appended to a legitimate script hosted by the merchant.
[19:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:15] <exec> 08└─Better yet, merchants stops collecting card data, period. Do like Paypal, redirect to the payment processor, enter the info there, and send back a one-time use token to the merchant, who can use that token to complete the transaction. Yes, it means the payment processor is a bigger target, but they...
[19:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─no shit! the summary cracked me up.
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─Let's be very clear. This part of the Fine Article: It's to protect Linux servers from server and network threats. If you want protection for your standalone desktop, you're better off with a such as ClamAV or Sophos Antivirus for Linux.
[19:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:25] <exec> 08└─My subscription here is money well-spent.
[19:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─One of my great regrets is not having tried to meet up with him when I went to Portland, Oregon a while back. I could have bought him a coffee and given him some moral support.
[19:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:29] <exec> 08└─The unstoppable rise of the cashless society, eh? Nowadays you can pay with credit cards almost anywhere. It is convenient and fast and you also don't need to carry cash around with you. Nonetheless, some people still prefer to pay with cash. Why do people do that? Economists previously thought that...
[19:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:31] <exec> 08└─no, but thanks for the thought. i'm not affiliated with the site in any way, btw. just another random commentard.
[19:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:33] <exec> 08└─As an aside, on quickly checking out the GAO report [gao.gov] on how the covid money under ARES(*) has been spent: For example, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, as of April 30, almost 1.1 million payments totaling nearly $1.4 billion had gone to decedents [aka dea...
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:35] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen on Youtube and other sites, EBT recipients get a card that looks just like any other credit card - it doesn't even say "EBT" on it.
[19:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updated] - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:37] <exec> 08└─It's Gotta be a tote bag.
[19:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:03] <exec> 08└─yeah, and nobody cared until they can use it to pander to "minorities".
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:04] <exec> 08└─Or imagine that Bad Guys can secretly plant a camera and telescope to recognize and record faces of people who go into, say, police departments, court houses, military bases, etc.
[19:24:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 1072 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:14] <exec> 08└─Perl 6 had too many breaking changes from 5, that they decided to treat it like its own language and added even more changes people thought were long overdue. Hence they changed the name of what used to be 6 to "Raku." They are also skipping this version to 7 to skip the issue of people running into...
[19:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:35] <exec> 08└─If I don't care about performance I already use Ruby. Raku is pretty much "NIH version of Ruby". Honestly I have severe problems using Raku and Ruby because the syntax is practically the same but not quite. Quick trivia question to demonstrate the agony, which is proper Ruby syntax and which is prop...
[19:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dmbasso [3237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:37] <exec> 08└─Except you'll notice that Python is also used for personal projects in a much higher ratio relative to Perl. But my point was about the "Python'd" as derogative... sure, the Python 3 release could perhaps have been handled better, but after the initial friction the language has been adopted and is s...
[19:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:39] <exec> 08└─Okay, I've done more testing because you got me interested. Short summary: unbuffered IO is dreadfully slow, buffered IO is adequately fast but still not as fast as other scripting languages. I took a 100 million byte binary file and then wrote six programs to traverse the file and print the last fe...
[19:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─I fully expect to see an article where this mirror, in full defiance of all known physics, somehow ends up in just the right spot and concentrates a beam of sunlight on Australia, setting it on fire. Again.
[19:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:54] <exec> 08└─I would actually say EA probably has a more legit use case than the news apps. At least in their defense, they could be looking for things like game codes and gift card codes on the clipboard. Some apps will check the clipboard and if they know what is on it and it pertains to the app, offer to act...
[19:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:01] <exec> 08└─"had a reaction to the MMR vaccine " oh no he didn't! that was just a coincidence, blasphemer!
[19:27:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─Did anyone check whether Finland startup up any 5G networks on June 16 or 17? A technician may have left an endpoint uncapped.
[19:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:42] <exec> 08└─Another likely possibility is that something has started to leak.
[19:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:56] <exec> 08└─Thing is there's no need to offer bounties. There are very many Afghans willing to kill US soldiers. The Russians can supply them with weapons and ammo (similar to how the CIA supplies or even trains extremists to help mess up the Middle East further). No need to motivate them any further. The US ha...
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[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:25] <exec> 08└─It's really hard to see how the IA is defensible here. Even the original program seemed legally questionable. Transforming a protected work from one medium to another is making a copy, lending a physical book is not. Unlimited lending doesn't seem to have any real distinction from just giving away a...
[20:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:27] <exec> 08└─It's really hard to see how the IA is defensible here.
[20:23:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I miss him too. He was one of my favorite kinds of crazy.
[20:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about it for a while but never got around to it until now. Well here you go!
[20:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:58] <exec> 08└─"For the size and traffic on SN, they're paying way too much." I don't really know much about the various hosting services but what are some alternatives? Maybe someone here can consider some alternatives you have in mind or at least there could be a discussion of the pros and cons of each. Such a d...
[20:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:01] <exec> 08└─Funny, but,.............NOOOOOOO!
[20:24:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 3485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:41] <exec> 08└─The most likely thing that happens to Perl in the next 30 years is that it follows the footsteps of COBOL. People completely stop using it for new projects, but there are still tens of millions of lines of legacy code in use and requiring maintenance. But this is the first step of what could be a Pe...
[20:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:01] <exec> 08└─If two tools can accomplish a given task and one is harder to learn than the other, what possible reason is there for learning the harder one?
[20:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damascus Steel Can be 3D Printed - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:39] <exec> 08└─This is why most people call the real stuff Wootz Steel or Wootz Damascus.
[20:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Introduce "Balanced" Bill That Aims to End Warrant-Proof Encryption - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:08] <exec> 08└─Silicon Valley companies are starting to offer free, user-friendly, end-to-end encrypted services. Use legislation to scare the Silicon Valley companies away, and end-to-end encryption will be used by just millions instead of hundreds of millions.
[20:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Introduce "Balanced" Bill That Aims to End Warrant-Proof Encryption - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:09] <exec> 08└─They did a LEAF field before, how much you wanna bet the new attempt has similar issues as the old one, due to math.
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[21:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─It's really hard to see how the IA is defensible here.
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:40] <exec> 08└─So the merchants stop using javascript, that doesn't affect the javascript inserted into their page by some third party. It would only help users who use their site with javascript disabled ... which if they're only changing the final order page - and still use javascript throughout the store front...
[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─Honeycomb's big? Yeah yeah yeah. It's not small? No, no, no. Honeycomb's got a big big bite! Big big taste in a big big bite!
[21:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:04] <exec> 08└─My thoughts as well. How long before it is found out to be collecting the same sort of data on its users as does Windows 10?
[21:23:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:39] <exec> 08└─That said, if someone has had a good experience with a US-based provider
[21:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:03] <exec> 08└─How much money would it take as an "endowment" of sorts to keep things running into perpetuity or for a multi-year period? If $3500 is the low end, what does the high end look like? I ask this question for all kinds of things nowadays.
[21:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:04] <exec> 08└─I don't mind biased suggestions. I wasn't going to take your word for it anyway, I was going to have a look myself.
[21:24:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:32] <exec> 08└─Or imagine that Bad Guys can secretly plant a camera and telescope to recognize and record faces of people who go into, say, police departments, court houses, military bases, etc.
[21:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:34] <exec> 08└─Well I did but nobody up in DC gives a fuck what I care about except the guys with the watch lists.
[21:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:36] <exec> 08└─My car needs painting so lately I've been going over possible paint schemes. I had to throw out a General Lee possibility because the 01 would land between the doors and that would annoy me. So I thought camouflage. Then I thought, "When is my car ever going to be hiding in a forest? What it needs i...
[21:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:38] <exec> 08└─Not even if it's like a horse's feed bag but full of M&Ms.
[21:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:40] <exec> 08└─I get way more than you think. Where my lines are drawn is just vastly less on the side of authoritarian insanity than yours.
[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─Except you'll notice that Python is also used for personal projects in a much higher ratio relative to Perl.
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:16] <exec> 08└─If by "better" you mean "kicks the everloving shit out of the nearest competition", you would indeed be correct.
[21:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 2087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:18] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, all good points. I have a friend who refers to certain things as "polished turd". Again, really don't mean to be argumentative, but I know that when I see the business market (job ads) is driving a specific technology, I develop interest. If it's difficult or annoying, it might become a...
[21:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:20] <exec> 08└─Raku isn't compared to compete in the place Perl is most useful: arbitrary text mangling, quickly coded.
[21:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:22] <exec> 08└─1) Suitability to purpose is more important than ease of learning. Which is why AAA games are not written in Java. 2) It's not an either/or situation. Learning only what you need for a job makes you a mediocre investment by a boss. Learning everything you can and being able to use the best tool for...
[21:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Super Earths" Discovered Orbiting Nearby Bright Red Dwarf Star Gliese 887 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I would mod that +1 Interesting if I could. Europa, Titan, Ganymede, and Io would all be great to visit.
[21:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:28] <exec> 08└─IMHO, of course, one of the better posts ever. There are serious conspiracy theorists (maybe realists?) who would tell you we're all pawns in a very complex game. A big part of the game is to keep us fighting, including labeling each other "troll" (completely bastardizing the definition of "troll")...
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[22:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disc Player Exploit Targets PlayStation 2 Console, Possibly Others - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:13] <exec> 08└─Playing a DVD presents a huge attack surface. Why would this be so? MPEG2 is a container format. It's got a bunch of containers, each with an ID. Every once in a while you get a table of contents that says stuff like ID1 is english, ID2 is spanish, ID3 is closed captioning, ID4 is video, etc. Litera...
[22:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disc Player Exploit Targets PlayStation 2 Console, Possibly Others - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:15] <exec> 08└─Is it really that hard? Or is the whole "callback to MPAA" shit so bad you can get hacked playing a, for $diety's sake, DVD.
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 4577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:25] <exec> 08└─https://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/03/20/214236/ask-slashdot-what-is-a-reasonable-way-to-deter-piracy [slashdot.org] The original link has moved, or been taken down, or something - https://www.baen.com [baen.com] So, I'll just c/p my original post: Jim Baen sold books, rather than s...
[22:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─Get a large pool, fill it with boiling sulfuric acid, and throw all the lawyers in.
[22:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─No, the acronym is apt. This is just the vehicle, not the threat itself. So this is just the Advanced Threat Persister, able to facilitate other Advanced Persistent Threats. I mean, in order to target lots of hosts simultaneously, the hosts must run common vulnerable code. That's what this tool is f...
[22:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:06] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't fly, NCommander is a millennial.
[22:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:07] <exec> 08└─You could get a Visa debit and attach it only to its own account, that way limiting your financial exposure.
[22:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:09] <exec> 08└─How much money would it take as an "endowment" of sorts to keep things running into perpetuity or for a multi-year period? If $3500 is the low end, what does the high end look like? I ask this question for all kinds of things nowadays.
[22:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:11] <exec> 08└─$3500 is slightly over half a year's worth of expenses, $7K a year is our funding goal and leaves us with expenses plus a slight addition to the rainy day fund. Barring significant price increases to our base costs, you can just use straight multiplication and be pretty accurate. I can't speak for e...
[22:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:14] <exec> 08└─Nonetheless, some people still prefer to pay with cash. Why do people do that?
[22:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:16] <exec> 08└─This may sound like an advertisement but it's not. If you need to send money abroad regularly, you might consider a transferwise.com account. I'm not affiliated with them, just a content customer. You can use their service to send money to bank accounts in many different countries. I use them to sup...
[22:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:27] <exec> 08└─I expect one reason the C program is so fast is that, under the hood, the C stdio library really is buffering the file read even when the program is reading only one byte at a time. Evidently, Raku is not. I guess it comes down to whether an app programmer should have to worry about I/O buffering, o...
[22:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dmbasso [3237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:28] <exec> 08└─Nice stories, thanks for sharing! It made me recall that I actually used BASIC professionally, but nothing really interesting (as your cases are). I made some interactive graphics materials for an "intro to computers" course I lectured back in 92 or 93. I used Borland's Turbo Basic to compile them;...
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[23:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disc Player Exploit Targets PlayStation 2 Console, Possibly Others - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:07] <exec> 08└─We're not talking about pirated games here, but titles that were never meant to run on a PS2, like the classic Mario platformer, for example.
[23:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disc Player Exploit Targets PlayStation 2 Console, Possibly Others - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:08] <exec> 08└─Disregard that line if you value your sanity.
[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disc Player Exploit Targets PlayStation 2 Console, Possibly Others - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─Just remembered MPEG isn't packetized, so you can't go by how many bytes the hardware read. But still, each packet has a sync, a byte count, and a checksum/CRC. How hard can it be to figure out that something about your packet is dodgy, and scan the stream looking for the sync pattern?
[23:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disc Player Exploit Targets PlayStation 2 Console, Possibly Others - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:13] <exec> 08└─The news stories were incredibly light on detail to the point of absolute uselessness. The writeup was properly informative. Man, selfboot games on PS2. Really, really cool. The exploit that lets him run code from DVD can be chained into running ESR, which will boot the patched game on the disc. It'...
[23:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. As an aside, are the Honor Harrington books worth reading? I do enjoy space opera (which I assume the series is an example of) and have enjoyed other books written by David Weber.
[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:26] <exec> 08└─that is torture of sulfuric acid and illegal under the geneva convention.
[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─Trying to force people to pay for the same thing 2, 3 or 4 times is now standard operating procedure by the copyright cartels (aka publishers, in this instance, but applies to the industry as a whole). They decided that you paying once for an item is no longer sufficient. It won't be long until they...
[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:30] <exec> 08└─JACK CADE. Valiant I am. SMITH [aside]. A must needs; for beggary is valiant. JACK CADE. I am able to endure much. DICK [aside]. No question of that; for I have seen him whipp'd three market-days together. JACK CADE. I fear neither sword nor fire. SMITH [aside]. He need not fear the sword; for his c...
[23:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03beernutz [4365] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─I think the counter-point that will be made has to do with regular libraries still offering online lending even while they were closed. While I wholeheartedly support the IA, and the incredibly important work they do, I really fear they will get stomped on this one. 8(
[23:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 1701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─The indefensible is the publisher's preferred business model that is founded upon a scarcity that is wholly artificial. If the pandemic does nothing else good, it will at the least have exposed just how easy it is to forego the scarcity: do nothing. That's far easier than trying to enforce it, which...
[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─Even if there is a strong legal basis for what AC says, and I doubt there is, the decision is up to a number of judges of varying quality and opinions. On the plus side, if IA isn't dealt a death blow, they might end up weakening copyright instead.
[23:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─Oh wait. We are getting rid of the people that actually want to protect consumers and installing unqualified sock puppets there. We're screwed.
[23:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:54] <exec> 08└─"Credit Card Skimmers" - an active verb "metadata" - a noun Metadata cannot become active unless something active choses to activate it. And there's your mistake.
[23:23:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 999 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:29] <exec> 08└─"Worried" is not the word I would use. Each of the members of our board of directors, Matt and Michael, put up $5,000.00 to get us started as a PBC (Public Benefit Corporation). Partly so that SoylentNews could accept subscriptions and become self-supporting. But primarily so that nobody can just sh...
[23:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:24] <exec> 08└─I like to think we have a more interesting sort of trolls around here. They're like chimeras of the one-dimensional breeds you get elsewhere. Generally, they're a bit more intelligent than the average bear, but are far more delusional and inventive with their delirium, marbled with generous helpings...
[23:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:26] <exec> 08└─I've never received a naked picture of EF. I don't know whether to feel relieved or left out.
[23:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:23] <exec> 08└─I know absolutely nothing about Ken Sheriff. Please do not act as if I should, either - if I asked you what the work histories of the authors of the last several articles you read online were, I'd think you were a statistical anomaly if you were intimately familiar with a majority of them.
[23:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:25] <exec> 08└─Please enlighten me on the work history of the authors behind the last several articles you read online. Are you intimately familiar with them? I have no idea who Ken Sheriff is, and even if I did, his name wasn't in TFS, AFAIK.
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