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[00:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:11] <exec> 08└─There are two issues: Patents, what has expired? SW, the part would not be much use if there was nothing to make a load for it. Maybe a good performance Arduino processor with gates, flops, and sram on the side.
[00:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:12] <exec> 08└─Google is doing something, and I can't find any evil intentions. It's like 2002 again.
[00:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:15] <exec> 08└─I threw away my last roll of Rubylith last month.
[00:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─They take your open source design, add the backdoor for Mossad, then ship you 100 chips for free.
[00:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:19] <exec> 08└─I have not heard the term "rubylith" for 20 years. It bought back fond memories.
[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─As for who will actually make the chips, Google, and its partner efabless, chose SkyWater Technology Foundry, which was spun out of Cypress Semiconductor. A production run is scheduled for November this year, and another in early 2021, and more after.
[00:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:23] <exec> 08└─https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk [fossi-foundation.org] Doesn't seem to be much evil potential, unless you portray it as a nefarious low-cost way for Google to get a bunch of open source hardware designs that they will build on and make into new proprietary chips.
[00:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:37] <exec> 08└─Suicide mission against vampires: poison your own blood with blood thinners and bait strigoi to sting you with their stingers. Sorry it's a The Strain reference.
[00:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:05] <exec> 08└─Those filters can (obviously) do more harm than good... stagnant pools of breeding space - and carbon to neutralize the chlorine and ammonia.
[00:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:07] <exec> 08└─If you get it and know you have it, you're probably going to die. During that same period that 141 people died, 141,000 or more people had one or more of these amoeba inside their bodies, it just didn't turn into a full blown infection. CDC may not have anything to fight off an infection out of cont...
[00:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:09] <exec> 08└─Ron probably caught the infection from Rick (conflict of interest) Scott... Rick came to our office to give a speech one morning, he looked like he hadn't slept in two weeks - the alien parasite wrapped around his brainstem was just using him on maximum overdrive until the next election.
[00:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:29] <exec> 08└─Is that a statistically significant absence of small-valued digits?
[00:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:22] <exec> 08└─Maths is just fine, thanks. You can argue with my degree in it from a university that's existed for 184 years or, if you prefer, friend's degrees from (variously) universities that existed before the US was discovered or the 11th Century, your choice. They all refer to it as mathematics. It doesn't...
[00:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:24] <exec> 08└─There's nothing to remember on the slide rule
[00:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:59] <exec> 08└─Twice as many hungry kniggers and jihadis.
[00:27:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:45] <exec> 08└─So how much would it cost to have some control arm bushings made out of this stuff?
[00:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:45] <exec> 08└─I've only written programs. I fall way down on the "human interest story" part of the job. I tried a couple of times, but even I could tell that it was a failure. But I have put a bit of time into figuring out why I like certain stories and not others.
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[01:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:28] <exec> 08└─The basics of VLSI are pretty easy to learn for a C programmer. Granted, advanced parts of it are, well, advanced. I"m a retired embedded software engineer, I used to troubleshoot devices and could not only trace bugs to the core VLSI, but tell the engineer how to fix it. Hell, I remember one guy I...
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[01:22:30] <exec> 08└─" If you get a couple thousand young whipper snappers designing ICs then something useful has to come out of it." yeah, and we were told that if we had a million monkeys banging away at typewriters, shakespeare would pop out. well, we tried that with the internet and we got facebook, twitter, instag...
[01:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:32] <exec> 08└─That was my immediate reaction as well: A very limited custom ASIC using 20-year-old tech or anything you want using a current FPGA. I guess it's neat for student assignments but I can't see what else you'd do with the capability.
[01:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:34] <exec> 08└─So *that*'s their evil plan! Obtain old chip fabrication systemsOffer free fabrication as a smokescreenGet HURD [gnu.org] working on them, along with Duke Nukem Forever...Profit! Ingenious.
[01:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:37] <exec> 08└─Joke's on them, they'll spend more to add the backdoor and the chips I would be using won't even know Internet exists.
[01:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:40] <exec> 08└─Joke's on you... you won't even know they created a wireless link to the Internet using a protocol you haven't heard of.
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─Neutrino-Assisted Router Communication
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:44] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I should have written a better summary and not just cobbled a few sentences together and add a few links. I guess I expected a bit more editing or editorializing. My bad. While the SID part would be lovely I doubt that will happen. As far as I know those things are gone and would have to be...
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─Sign me up!
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:48] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the non-evil plan is to get more people into hardware design, hopefully improving/cheapening future generations of hardware. They are a software company after all [joelonsoftware.com]. (and with any luck find some talented people to hire for their neural-net processor design team) Evil...
[01:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:50] <exec> 08└─Shakespeare was a wiseass troll. He just had the stage as his medium rather than the Internet.
[01:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:05] <exec> 08└─your mom says hi
[01:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:06] <exec> 08└─A sting most foul! Murder Hornets with Optimal penetrating stingers, trying to Destroy America! Rioting and burning, and eating all the honeybees!
[01:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:08] <exec> 08└─She always liked taking pity on the less endowed.
[01:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:40] <exec> 08└─Impossible. It'd starve in a matter of days.
[01:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:03] <exec> 08└─Your first two points apply to millennials too.
[01:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:58] <exec> 08└─IIRC the -b should not be included within the parenthesis.
[01:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, definitely. I work on cars a fair amount for someone who doesn't do it as a job. Anyway, more and more the aforementioned parts are NOT being offered as rebuilt- sold as new only, coming from China of course. They're so inexpensive that it's not worth rebuilding them. Many recent examples: wate...
[01:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:15] <exec> 08└─And your argument of "buy stuff that you can repair" doesn't work when every seller in the market in question is employing these tactics,
[01:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you got yourself a broken document! Now if you could read the document, you'd know if you have the right to repair the broken document. It's the "shrink-wrap license" https://definitions.uslegal.com [uslegal.com] all over again!
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[02:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─Every time I see some image compression technique that's supposed to give better results with higher compression ratio, it's always worse. You can't fuckin fake it. That shit always looks low resolution. There was some noise coming from NoCol some years ago about compressive sensing that everyone se...
[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure you're encoding it wrong. Especially if you're taking an existing compressed video and re-compressing it. You'll never get higher quality than the source and you may get equal quality if you output raw.
[02:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─I won't believe this until Pornhub confirms it.
[02:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:52] <exec> 08└─One hundred free chips is dandy, but how much will they charge for the fish? And the ale?
[02:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─> Google is interested in 3DSoC [ieee.org]. Could be. But it's certain that takyon is interested in 3D silicon...
[02:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:55] <exec> 08└─I really don't think they'll add secret backdoors to them either
[02:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:58] <exec> 08└─> Shakespeare was a wiseass troll. Shakespeare was a wiseass troll with legs. FTFY
[02:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─Yes. I don't want to see Moore slaw hit a brick wall within the next 10 years.
[02:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's the catch--you get the 100 dice, but have to attach leads and package them on your own dime?
[02:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:04] <exec> 08└─Just the other days, I needed some op-amps for voltage converters. Can't find no op-amp chips no mo. Imma fax my design to google right over.
[02:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 1891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:06] <exec> 08└─I think they want to know who is self motivated to actually DO stuff. Lotsa people have the "leadership" skill to tell someone else to do stuff. Very few people are personally driven by passion to actually do it. Google wants to know who they are. I have already seen the disaster of placing passiona...
[02:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:14] <exec> 08└─For once, penises aren't off-topic.
[02:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:25] <exec> 08└─My faith in this community just grew. Dick joke top billing.
[02:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:58] <exec> 08└─I dunno, it takes some serious creativity to get up to all the wacky stuff they perpetrate in Florida.
[02:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:16] <exec> 08└─There's nothing to remember on the slide rule, what you need to remember is that half the log is the square root. Then it's obvious that you need to find two scales, one with two decades (two cycles) against the other with one decade. Line up 2 with 4 for a quick check and bob's your uncle!
[02:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:17] <exec> 08└─Working with zero crossing (and hell, any threshold crossing) is everywhere in electronics. Sure, you can MATLAB it all away, but it helps to have a more intuitive understanding of the underlying math mechanisms. But that's why that level of education is shit in America. The worst travesty of lower-...
[02:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:19] <exec> 08└─-b(etter?)
[02:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:22] <exec> 08└─Until eventually all the terms cancel except 42.
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:24] <exec> 08└─If only they would start with the axioms of set theory and get straight onto tensor calculus then we could derive the math test and solve it before it was even written. Bastards.
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[03:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:10] <exec> 08└─That is definitely not what OP meant. But the truth is that newer video codecs do improve quality at a given bitrate or lower bitrate for a given quality. It's just that ~50% lower bitrate could be a best case scenario or the average of a bunch of scenarios. And the percentages provided could be too...
[03:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:12] <exec> 08└─They won't bother to re-encode their 11,000 terabytes of content to H.266 anytime soon.
[03:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:14] <exec> 08└─Surely you mean 1100000000000000000000000000000 femtobytes?
[03:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:16] <exec> 08└─22000000000000000 nipbbles.
[03:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:18] <exec> 08└─Ping TMB, he might be interested.
[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─his whole division did not get Software Configuration Management I find this to be very prevalent in very old EE groups. One company I was interviewing for about 2 years ago. I did the "joel test' on them. "we use sourcesafe sometimes usually we just copy files around"
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─Google is doing something, and I can't find any evil intentions. It's like 2002 again.
[03:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 1882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:55] <exec> 08└─There can still be a deep financial incentive for a company that sees the writing on the wall to make fab domestic and make themselves appealing [skywatertechnology.com] so they can use the machines they would have to keep spinning anyway to get free PR points. It seems kind of logical for an ad com...
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:57] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think that would be a good thing. We'd have a least a decade of two where we'd be able to compensate by unbloating the software instead.
[03:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─Seems like that's not too bad. Opteron Sledgehammer, PPC G5, Xeon Northwood, and SPARC 64 V are all in that range. A RISC V chip in that process node would be interesting indeed. The MOS 6581 SID Chip is 7 µm by comparison, they used technology that was current in 1974 to get higher yields and henc...
[03:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:02] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'll take the orders of magnitude "free lunch" speedup first. There's nothing stopping you from writing or running efficient code, except maybe your bosses and the world at large. Don't forget that there is also energy efficiency to be gained by moving memory closer to cores, not just performan...
[03:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:04] <exec> 08└─100 should be enough
[03:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:06] <exec> 08└─I'd like both, but the state of software isn't going to improve while hardware gains can cover for sloppy coding.
[03:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─Now factor in the maximum die size: 10mm2. I'm not sure about the Xeon but most of the Northwood [intel.com] products seem to have been based on a 131 mm2 die.
[03:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:11] <exec> 08└─Joke's on you... you won't even know they created a wireless link to the Internet using a protocol you haven't heard of.
[03:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:23] <exec> 08└─Current information suggests that 8 of the 15 temperate diseases probably or possibly reached humans from domestic animals (diphtheria, influenza A, measles, mumps, pertussis, rotavirus, smallpox, tuberculosis); three more probably reached us from apes (hepatitis B) or rodents (plague, typhus); the...
[03:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:25] <exec> 08└─That was based on the scientist describing their own work. No news networks were involved.
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[04:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:33] <exec> 08└─I just got a video card that can hardware decode X265 and not even a month later the assholes come out with 266. Brassifrackin sackarackin long eared low down varmits!
[04:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─I'm headed off for a nice long nap. Wake me up when they can stream high rez 3D display data to my personal holodeck.
[04:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's going to be included in many products before 2022.
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─This codec supports 16K resolution. Your personal holodeck will be a VR headset, though.
[04:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:40] <exec> 08└─Fraunhofer? The *insert politically correct cursewords here* who caused all that mess with the MP3 licensing? The reason why some linux distros added the nonfree repositories? The tech might be good but I'm more interested in the licensing model because that will have more effect on the adoption.
[04:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:24] <exec> 08└─Throwing some business their way Adverts for nothing And your chips for free
[04:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:25] <exec> 08└─Shakespeare was a wiseass troll.
[04:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.digikey.com/products/en/integrated-circuits-ics/linear-amplifiers-instrumentation-op-amps-buffer-amps/687?k=&pkeyword=&sv=0&v=505&pv1989=0&sf=0&FV=-8%7C687&quantity=10&ColumnSort=0&page=1&stock=1&pageSize=25 [digikey.com] Lots of choices. Specs that we would have killed for in the 1970s....
[04:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:30] <exec> 08└─Your submission is perfect. Thanks for it and the SID inspiration. Turns out the Google chips can be mixed-signal. Hmmm. I see there are already quite a few hardware clones out there but as of this writing I've done no more research into how good they are. https://en.wikipedia.org
[04:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:32] <exec> 08└─Have you seen these? https://www.ebay.com [ebay.com]
[04:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:51] <exec> 08└─Not to worry, I guess you missed the video of the preying mantis eating out the head of a murder wasp.
[04:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:04] <exec> 08└─The problem is that manufacturers are anti-competitively preventing people from fixing things they in theory own.
[04:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:06] <exec> 08└─Ah, should have known. Some quick searching suggests that the Prius brakes are (at least partly?) brake-by-wire, so pushing on the pedal may not displace any brake fluid. Didn't bother to dig deeper, but good to know that there are systems out there which are truly different from standard hydraulics...
[04:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:47] <exec> 08└─What I find incredible (un-credible?) is the fact that this trend should have been observable over the past 4 months and apparently nothing was done to manage it until banks started informing commercial customers a few days ago: gee, sorry, we're out.
[04:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:02] <exec> 08└─Here [soylentnews.org], for example.
[04:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:03] <exec> 08└─How do these papers not support that people are most infectious prior to the onset of symptoms? How can you look at this and say they support a different conclusion?
[04:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:05] <exec> 08└─An observation, not a complaint
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[05:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:44] <exec> 08└─The licensing model will be beyond human comprehension. Inside MPEG's Ambitious Plan to Launch 3 Video Codecs in 2020 [streamingmedia.com] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) In 2020, the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) plans to launch three different codecs. To put that in persp...
[05:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:45] <exec> 08└─Not like H265 is used very much. The bottom link to the MPEG: What Happened dives into what has happened with the MPEG group and how H265 never reached the pervasiveness that H264 and MPEG-2 achieved. I think AV1 is the next critical codec to target hardware around. Even ignoring the open patents, t...
[05:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:34] <exec> 08└─Emulating old systems seems to be the realm of Rpi 4 videos on youtube. SNES machine that dual boots into a 2GS? GS/OS would absolutely fly at 1000 times its original clock speed.
[05:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:35] <exec> 08└─RPi 4 just moved to a 28nm node, from 40nm. I'm guessing die size is somewhere between 80 and 100 mm2.
[05:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:12] <exec> 08└─Police are by their nature expected to reveal arbitrary information they collect about you.
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[06:23:09] <exec> 08└─I think they want to know who is self motivated to actually DO stuff. Lotsa people have the "leadership" skill to tell someone else to do stuff. Very few people are personally driven by passion to actually do it. Google wants to know who they are. I have already seen the disaster of placing passiona...
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[07:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:16] <exec> 08└─Nice robot. Imagine a cluster of these, performing occult rituals... Wait, what is this robot really supposed to help with, butchering mammals???
[07:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:17] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it was stolen. Police are now looking for what they describe as a more attractive than average Chinese grad student with decent English skills.
[07:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:45] <exec> 08└─Take the blue capsule.
[07:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─Don't have a 3.75K monitor/TV and if I did my net connection couldn't handle it anyway and if it could the DRM would probably f$#! it all up and if not that hey is that a great depression coming this way?
[07:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:37] <exec> 08└─The basic FPGA patents have expired, though as always, much of all the other circuitry remains a patent minefield. Timeline, 20 years ago would place you around the Virtex-E - Virtex II days (Xilinx) so don't expect too much computationally.
[07:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:38] <exec> 08└─NARC for short.
[07:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:59] <exec> 08└─who has ever tried to stab someone in the throat with a Rubik's cube.
[07:24:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:14] <exec> 08└─From the Summary: the amoeba enters the body through the nose.
[07:25:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:15] <exec> 08└─And in the era of BLM, everyone should be proud of their roots, even when some of them are imaginary!
[07:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Infrared Images Could be Part of Your Daily Life - 2446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:19] <exec> 08└─The bottom line is that asymptomatic and presymptomatic transmission makes a large contribution to the overall spread of COVID-19. As you acknowledge, people who don't aware they're infected but have high viral loads may well engage in singing, loud talking, and physical exertion, all of which contr...
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[08:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 2519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:06] <exec> 08└─Per-byte, newer video / image compression techniques tend to improve the quality. What they don't tell you is that not everybody compresses as much as they could - there are patents on some parts, so you avoid using those unless you want to pay. Also, encoding takes a lot of CPU power. Compressing *...
[08:23:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 1013 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:20] <exec> 08└─The basics of VLSI are pretty easy to learn for a C programmer. Granted, advanced parts of it are, well, advanced. I"m a retired embedded software engineer, I used to troubleshoot devices and could not only trace bugs to the core VLSI, but tell the engineer how to fix it. Hell, I remember one guy I...
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[09:22:09] <exec> 08└─I could care less.
[09:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design and Properties of "Pentadiamond" Predicted Using Computers - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:23] <exec> 08└─this was the stuff I liked. there are usually these orbitals, and they can be deformed. and this explains the facts. including pictures of molecules. I needed to get to college to get a clearer picture of what the orbitals actually are (no idea why highschool teacher didn't simply say "probability c...
[09:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:49] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure you're encoding it wrong.
[09:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:50] <exec> 08└─It depends on the viewer preferences too. I find that some compressed video looks more like computer animation than live action. Everything is rendered flat, it looks false even if the big flat blocks have really sharp edges.
[09:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:52] <exec> 08└─Back in the '90s, MPEG-1 required two CDs for a film. There were visible artefacts, wallpaper was blurred and action scenes were unwatchable. With modern CODECs, you can fit an HD film in around 1GB. If you think video CODEC qualities haven't improved over the last couple of decades, you have a very...
[09:25:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 706 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:44] <exec> 08└─My experience is that the people who hate math the most passionately are those who focused on developing skills of persuasion rather than developing knowledge, and can't stand the fact that a wrong answer in math is still wrong no matter how persuasively you try to argue that it's right. Which corre...
[09:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:02] <exec> 08└─Aren't there 2 roots?
[09:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:04] <exec> 08└─Is it A and D? No wonder I'm usually better off doing it by hand.
[09:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:06] <exec> 08└─We were taught the formula and then taught the completing the square method [wikipedia.org]. If you complete the square with variables for the coefficients, you end up with the formula, so it provides a nice way of showing where the formula came from. I really hated 'memorise the formula' lessons...
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[10:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe like Humans; the birds are getting more stupid and can only count to two now.
[10:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:19] <exec> 08└─See title?
[10:22:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 1686 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:54] <exec> 08└─The licensing model will be beyond human comprehension. Inside MPEG's Ambitious Plan to Launch 3 Video Codecs in 2020 [streamingmedia.com] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) In 2020, the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) plans to launch three different codecs. To put that in persp...
[10:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:47] <exec> 08└─And now it is being spread by Huawei 5G. Trump is the living proof!
[10:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:16] <exec> 08└─Isn't it just Add and Divide?
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[11:22:14] <exec> 08└─Who will be the first to install speakers all over the Canadian wilderness and dominate mainstream bird melodies?
[11:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:16] <exec> 08└─the birds aren't real! probably got issued a copyright infringement notice on the old melody had to do a rolling update to avoid costly licensing fees
[11:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─Yes I hear Epstein has a bunch of these delivered to his home a few months before he didn't kill himself.
[11:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:52] <exec> 08└─I still use a lot of LM358. They have an unusual input stage that will go slightly below zero when run on unipolar 5 volt logic power.
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[12:22:28] <exec> 08└─Some SJW scholars have an unproven theory that the continent was first inhabited by pink-hair transvestites.
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[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─Canadian here. The local sparrows have all begun singing "On Top of Old Smokey" at the top of their lungs beginning at 5am. Very annoying.
[12:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:52] <exec> 08└─Scientists at the University of Liverpool have unveiled a robotic colleague that has been working non-stop in their university throughout lockdown. The £100,000 programmable researcher learns from its results to refine its experiments. "It can work autonomously, so I can run experiments from home,"...
[12:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:54] <exec> 08└─The winner of this years Nobel-prize go to: ResearchBot5001 ... to help socially distancing scientists
[12:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:35] <exec> 08└─I'm holding off until I see what problems other people are having. I am very pessimistic this new technology will have the robustness and resilience I expect from my stuff. I have little use for stuff broken by design. If it is encumbered by finicky DRM, it will be simply too much a pain in the ass...
[12:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:37] <exec> 08└─Wut? Oh, nah. I've got a pretty cheap gigabit connection, so them saving a few bytes at the expense of spending more on power don't concern me.
[12:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:32] <exec> 08└─As I recall, from memory, the old/first SID (6581) required 12vdd (and 5vcc), then one of the middle versions was 9v but the eventual updated chip (8580) worked with just 5vcc/9vdd. I think this is one of those things, or reasons, that might have killed a lot of chips -- when you install new chips i...
[12:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:54] <exec> 08└─I can neither confirm nor deny....
[12:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:15] <exec> 08└─Well, what was there in the story? The author wants to repair stuff. That's not a problem. That's a want. And the author exaggerates the importance of stuff that's not repairable to "climate change". Finally, somehow a bureaucracy churning out a completely undiscussed standard of repairableness de...
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[12:30:16] <exec> 08└─Nobody is forced to buy Office or John Deere. And these sort of games mean that a lot of people don't.
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[13:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─Well, at least birds don't have copyright lawyers who'd ensure that only ONE bird may sing a certain tune.
[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─...is who Rickrolled [youtube.com] the sparrows.
[13:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:46] <exec> 08└─Ya know, that's just what the young folks do, back in my time, in the 50s, they got together to invent new and silly dances, today they just invent new and silly genders.
[13:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:24] <exec> 08└─Yup. A new standard codec more than once every decade or so don't fly in the market. MPEG->Divx/Xvid->H.264 is pretty much how it's gone so far as standard, consumer-used video compression goes, with a brief shout-out to MPEG-2 for the short span that DVDs were relevant. Over the span from before Wi...
[13:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:25] <exec> 08└─I can't really tell the difference between 1080p and 4K unless I'm sitting too close to the TV/monitor for my eyes to focus well. And framerates over 30fps on anything except video games is a guaranteed way to get me to refuse to watch it.
[13:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:27] <exec> 08└─Totally. I tend to think that those who are developing these new codecs think everyone's chomping at the bit for a newer/better codec, when for the most part, they just want a codec that their shit can actually play.
[13:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:40] <exec> 08└─(Un)Fortunately, fewer people pay attention to science than to rumour.
[13:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Even if you understand limits, the process of proving the formulas for the derivative of sin and cos are not easy.
[13:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:46] <exec> 08└─maybe if the ignorant were properly shamed for being ignorant, and forced to learn some math, we wouldn't be in the situation when "exponential growth" is a crucial notion that people can't understand.
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[14:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:25] <exec> 08└─UK cops have my fingerprints (whole hand prints) on record because my room was broken into while visiting there. OK, that's just prints rather than DNA, but given that neither is a reliable way of placing someone at the scene of most crimes it's much of a muchness. However, if these types of databas...
[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:27] <exec> 08└─In the U.S., the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has a DNA database called the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) that currently contains over 14 million DNA profiles. This database has a disproportionately high number of profiles of black men, because black Americans are arrested five times as...
[14:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─s/ Racial// FTFY
[14:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─>> That's not racist. Yes, it is. As the article says, Black people are five times as likely to commit crimes. Give up your systemic racist mindset and consider the possibility that the thief might have used your camera to launch into a career as a professional photographer. Instead, you want to see...
[14:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:33] <exec> 08└─However, if these types of databases are tools of oppression in only 2 countries in the world, but not elsewhere, then I think we can conlude that there's nothing intrinsically wrong with such types of databases. Stop the oppression at its core, and then the tools no longer become useful for oppress...
[14:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─"This database has a disproportionately high number of profiles of black men, because black Americans are arrested five times as much as white Americans." Is the database disproportionate because it contains 5x as many black americans as white americans? Or did they conveniently leave out the fact t...
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─Agreed but you're not going to get anywhere by using logic and reason with the people of the opposing viewpoint. They're already aware of this and have no problem whatsoever with calling night day and day a `76 Buick if that's what it takes to keep them from having to reevaluate their position.
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─The logic of the Left leads to not going after criminals because they don't want to "oppress" them. Criminals get rights over the victims of their crimes. We have been seeing the consequences over the past month or so. More innocent people including small children die. More BLACK people die. We ALL...
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─In either case it is biased propaganda. The context that is always missing whenever racial disproportionality is brought up is the rate of violent crime. This is in the same line of thought as San Francisco no longer releasing mug shots in an attempt to "stop fueling racial bias" [nbcnews.com] Ironi...
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─And if you dare try to defend yourself with a gun from a mob while wearing a pink polo. You are the problem and will be investigated. Not the mob that trespasses and destroys property.
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:47] <exec> 08└─Police are looking for two White people who painted over a Black Lives Matter mural https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] No comment.
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─The logic of the Left leads to not going after criminals because they don't want to "oppress" them. Criminals get rights over the victims of their crimes.
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─If the new tune is simpler than the old one, and catches the attention equally, then it's parsimoniously dominant, and we should not be surprised if memetic evolution selects for it. It's the woodland birds that have changed their birdsong to "truck starting", and "chainsaw" that I feel most respect...
[14:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─Ok, got it. Full boobs or go away, nipbbles are not interesting.
[14:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:06] <exec> 08└─16K 240Hz VR video
[14:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 2811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:08] <exec> 08└─I still just buy SD movies. Save myself a few quid on each movie, honestly don't notice the difference. I can spot a stray pixel at a hundred yards. But a movie? Who cares? P.S. I don't have a TV and watch most of my movies on a 90" diagonal projected image. It's capable of 1080, but it rarely needs...
[14:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:11] <exec> 08└─I can see the benefit all the way up to 1080p but most of my stuff I drop down to 720p for the huge space savings and a perceptible but quite acceptable quality loss. TV shows I mostly archive in 480p though. They tend to come in huge quantities compared to movies, so further space savings is warran...
[14:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:13] <exec> 08└─If it's something I intend to re-watch years later, I'll go for the higher resolution. That way it'll still look ok on my 8K or 16K TV. Otherwise, space savings generally wins out.
[14:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:34] <exec> 08└─> If something can be reduced to a formula ... a computer can then solve that category of problem Yes it can. And in math class *you* are the computer (= one who computes), as was always the case before the invention of mechanical and then electronic computers. Having a terrible memory for details,...
[14:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:36] <exec> 08└─>What I can agree with him on tho is that I do wonder why they even teach the formula in high school (or equivalent) instead of using factorization. Easy - because when you're solving real-world quadratic equations the answers will almost never be integers, and the "guessing method" is basically use...
[14:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:38] <exec> 08└─It definitely should be: in the traditional "math form" writing the -b is in the numerator while 2a is the denominator. Take the -b out of the parenthesis and it will no longer be in the numerator.
[14:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:40] <exec> 08└─I don't suggest one should be cut, my suggestion was that they should teach the factorization method before the formula. There is also a pedagogical difference in that the factorization method is probably easier to understand then being told inserts the values here and hit calculate and then the mag...
[14:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:42] <exec> 08└─"Math" is not a word either - the word is mathematics, and there are two common ways to shorten it "math" and "maths". And "maths" is the preferred form in English, the native language of England. I believe "math" is preferred only in the the bastardized American version of the language.
[14:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry Raising $6.55 Billion or More in Funding - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:47] <exec> 08└─it sounds like it was managed to some degree. After all, we didn't hear about it until recently.
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[15:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:07] <exec> 08└─you should probably take this time to upgrade your router's firmware ASAP. That is if an update is even available from the manufacturer.
[15:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe a much gooder idea would be to put the government in charge of router firmware and security updates. If you want the job done left right.
[15:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe let them finish with doing pandemic management right first...
[15:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:13] <exec> 08└─I thought they had finished that and the USA was Number One! MAGA!!! I eagerly await the government to help us with our home technology issues. And everything. Like a benevolent older male sibling. How To Free Up Port 53, Used By systemd-resolved [linuxuprising.com] (systemd-resolved listening on po...
[15:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:32] <exec> 08└─Black people are five times more likely to be arrested, not to commit crimes. Jews were also a lot more likely to end up in a concentration camp than other Germans. Yes, that's hyperbole. Hey, who started it?
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─Link?
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─They have a much higher crime rate than 5x relative to other groups. On a national level their homicide rate is about 1000% that of whites, similar with most other forms of violent crime. The Bureau of Justice statistics carried out a lengthy analysis available here [bjs.gov]. In a nutshell blacks m...
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─That Australian lady who called the pigs in Minneapolis a few years back to report a crime and got gunned down. She was Black, right?
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─Logic of the Right: End all government worker unions. That way if you get police that are doing a bad job they can be fired. If you get teachers that doesn't give a shit, get rid of them. Address multiple problems that affect inner city communities with one policy change. VS. Logic of the Left: Defu...
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─I provided as many links as the post to which I replied. But you can find some on YouTube.
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─The thing you miss is recidivism. In the US there are quite a lot of people living lives of crime. They go into prison, get out, engage in crime, go to prison, repeat until they escalate to something that gets them locked away indefinitely. In China recidivism is far less for a variety of reasons. S...
[15:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─National DNA databases will lead to tyranny and the loss of our rights as humans. One solution would be for the United Nations to step in and seize all these DNA databases from nations which have them. That would put an end to this.
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─Black people are five times more likely to be arrested, not to commit crimes
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:51] <exec> 08└─> Note that this has all happened before (60s - 70s especially, and also 80s - early 90s). Most things, in terms of government and the mob, have in fact happened before. Those who want to cancel history and tear down the reminders of it are in fact doomed to repeat it, they know that, that is why th...
[15:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:53] <exec> 08└─Link?
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:55] <exec> 08└─It also ensures that progress is never possible. The politically correct nonsense is to try to assume that everybody is identical and thus any differences are solely a result of other some form if discrimination/bias/etc or some environmental factor. The problem with this is simple. Most of all evid...
[15:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─Because someone of the same color as them, who died many generations ago, that they don't know, was traded by their african tribal chiefs for slavery in exchange for pretty trinkets. That my friends is "truth"
[15:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─Indeed! Omitting the " Racial" leaves a statement which is rather obvious and less inflamitory . Of course, nearly anything can be employed as as a tool of oppression by those who have a will to oppress. If only we knew which genomes determine the content of character, then we could discover oppress...
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─I thought California at least was collecting DNA from any baby born there and inserting it into a database.
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─I sort of agree with you but then I have to question if that position is a form of neo-luddism. What is the fundamental difference between a DNA database and what Alphonse Berillon [wikipedia.org] did? I could imagine a similar argument take place in the 1840's with the police starting detailed reco...
[15:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─How exactly is DNA different from fingerprints in this respect? Other than being newer technology and therefore scary?
[15:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 1716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─Isn't it anti-science to disbelieve in evolution? Try an inductive proof of oppression. Lets say, for the sake of argument, that we actually do punish black offenders more intensively than whites for the same crime. And in some parts of the country we've been doing that since the (first, so far) civ...
[15:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─I could care less.
[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:32] <exec> 08└─I was thinking they had discovered an adaptation of "Baby Shark".
[15:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:34] <exec> 08└─a novel song sung by white-throated sparrows is spreading across Canada at an unprecedented rate. What's more, the new song appears to be replacing the pre-existing melody, which dates as far back as the 1960s.
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─there is the possibility that birds simply learn what they hear, not necessarily thinking of the consequences.
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─Like humans, language becomes more succinct. Instead of saying "please step out of my territory", a blunt "fuck off!" gets the point across with less complexity.
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─https://thenextweb.com/google/2012/02/27/a-copyright-claim-on-chirping-birds-highlights-the-flaws-of-youtubes-automated-system/ [thenextweb.com]
[15:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:38] <exec> 08└─Fraunhofer didn't cause any mess. They did own the IP. It was the People taking what they wanted without paying that got Fraunhofer to resist.
[15:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:40] <exec> 08└─Eh, 480p looks fine on a 1080p screen to me. At least for TV quality stuff.
[15:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:42] <exec> 08└─I still use mpeg2 a lot because it is the only format I can cut with frame accuracy and only reencode the GOP fragments with dvbcut.
[15:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:44] <exec> 08└─Your listening wrong. Please crank your mp3 bitrate up to 96 kbps to see if this improves your disposition.
[15:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:46] <exec> 08└─This will be perfect for a Raspberry Pi with a 2.5 inch monitor!
[15:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, animation looks fine at SD as well.
[15:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's true. Now. But in 10 years, you're gonna wish you'd gone bigger on your 16K TV.
[15:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:53] <exec> 08└─Ouch, that's pretty brutal. Also not really true anymore. Nowadays you can do frame accuracy with H.264 or H.265, get a hell of a lot better quality:size ratio, and still only have to reencode the GOP(s) you chopped. Have a look at FFMediaToolkit for example.
[15:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─In ten years I'll be sitting so far back that it'll have to take up a wall for me to tell the difference between 1080p and 16K.
[15:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─Modern chips do not have DIP packaging sadfully.
[15:26:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:32] <exec> 08└─Well, the state capital, Tallahassee is located in Leon county not Hillsborough. So, I am assuming that Ron De Santis (governor of FL) is not the person with the brain eating amoeba. Based on that assumption, Ron's brain disorder must be the result of having his head stuck too far up Trump's ass.
[15:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:45] <exec> 08└─It's the year that just keeps on giving in terms of pathogens...
[15:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bat-Virus Détente - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:12] <exec> 08└─Lucky for us the folks burning down 5G towers think science is fake.
[15:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:24] <exec> 08└─Working with zero crossing (and hell, any threshold crossing) is everywhere in electronics
[15:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:25] <exec> 08└─My classmates who only had the mediocre teachers
[15:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:28] <exec> 08└─Did they stop? Seems like I, and everyone I've tutored over the years, got the basic factorization first. It's just that it's only a brief conceptual step of "reversing the FOIL method" to figure out the solution, which is very rapidly skipped over in favor of the quadratic formula, since manual fac...
[15:29:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Opportunist [5545] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:19] <exec> 08└─You do know that there's a difference between the common cold and Covid, yes? I'm genuinely asking...
[15:29:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06NY Partygoers Get Subpoenas after Stonewalling COVID-19 Contact Tracers - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:29] <exec> 08└─You do know that there's a difference between the common cold and Covid, yes?
[15:31:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:11] <exec> 08└─Managers get ahead by showing quarterly sales growth, not increased product lifespans.
[15:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:51] <exec> 08└─Nobody is forced to buy Office or John Deere.
[15:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:52] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I was referencing. And I agree completely - I absolutely refuse to buy any laptop with a soldered on consumable components. RAM I might tolerate if there's enough of it - RAM generally lasts a long time, and demands have pretty much plateaued. SSD and battery though - you're almost guar...
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[16:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:20] <exec> 08└─BTW, the <strike>strike</strike> regression from a little while back remains broken. del still works but it's a half full glass. :)
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─Was it a regression or did we put it in broken?
[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─Shit, man, you owe me a new sarcasm detector.
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─You will be immune to almost all vulnerabilities
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe a much gooder idea would be to put the government in charge of router firmware and security updates. If you want the job done left right.
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─Older sarcasm detectors need to be upgraded. New sarcasm detectors must be manufactured to higher standards for today's modern sarcasm generators.
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─I agree with the AC that OpenWRT is the way to go. Even though the intersection of supported hardware and what is available in the big box stores is quite small
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─Also applies to commercial security cameras.
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─DD-WRT v3.0-r36330 std (07/16/18) I really hate doing unnecessary flashes, but if there's a chance someone can get root on it or something like that I'd rather bite the bullet. It seems like article and paper are more talking about the shit OEM stuff that hasn't been updated since the router itself...
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─> Then imagine if there were a software package that when put on an SD card, made a turn key router But what happens when it doesn't get software/firmware updates?
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─> I thought they had finished that and the USA was Number One! MAGA!!! Not on per-capita death rate, and everyone knows having more cases is only down to more testing... Still, credit where it's due, USA is definitely heading up the league table, some way to go before you catch the likes of France/S...
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─Financial reason not emotional. Ultimately anyway. A lot of people make a lot of money off selling victimhood.
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─If the national aspect of DNA collection is a problem, why move DNA databases to the local police level where they cannot be consolidated? If we moved DNA databases to the global level, then they could be consolidated across nations. For our protection! Sort of like a benevolent older male sibling....
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:31] <exec> 08└─I would please like to know how to insert physical object such as baby into a database. To increase my proficiency.
[16:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:33] <exec> 08└─I would extend your remarks with the usual urban/rural disparity issues. Certainly Chicago has fifty blacks die every weekend after being shot by fifty other blacks so they have a regular assembly line of submitting DNA data from fifty murders per weekend for a long time. On the other hand rural Mon...
[16:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─We're not supposed to see the point. We only feel the point when their spear is at our back. Please add a helping of facial recognition to global DNA databases. For our safety!
[16:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─One of the most elegant lines of code ever. Having said that, I find it disturbing when I agree with TMB. Damn, I hate getting old.
[16:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:40] <exec> 08└─everybody is identical
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:42] <exec> 08└─outright imaginary stuff or occasionally outright fabrications.
[16:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:44] <exec> 08└─Two things: 1) You are making a common statistical mistake based on their data. Imagine 50% of people commit 100% of crime. How much more likely is that 50% to commit crime than the rest of society? It's obviously not (percent_of_crime_committed / percent_of_population) because that'd lead you to be...
[16:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:46] <exec> 08└─>If the national aspect of DNA collection is a problem, why move DNA databases to the local police level where they cannot be consolidated? Local police have biometric records of suspects and criminals in their jurisdiction. There are federal crimes, investigations, suspects, and criminals that have...
[16:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:49] <exec> 08└─The genetic predisposition to sociopathy is believed to be stress driven and sociopaths do not display a monogamous mating strategy. Female sexual availability when a percentage of the male population is removed reinforces this. Trumps First Step Act which would reduce black male incarceration for m...
[16:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:51] <exec> 08└─Your appearance can be derived/predicted, genetic diseases you have can be identified, you can be cloned or your DNA can be used to make offspring in the future without your knowledge, and your DNA can be synthesized and sprayed onto a crime scene to frame you. All from a digitized full genome seque...
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:53] <exec> 08└─The whole of Australia was colonized by criminals. If crime was hereditary, as you seem to infer, then shouldn't criminality in Australia be, if not the norm, at least measurebly higher, statistically ? And yet, it is not. And one more thing: Racists always seem to bring out the "blacks are X times...
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/nyregion/amy-cooper-false-report-charge.html [nytimes.com] and you're welcome.
[16:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 1850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:57] <exec> 08└─It is so weird that democratic ideology does seem to be gradually headed towards 'separate but equal' all over again. I mean do people not understand that this is exactly what something like a 'racially segregated safe space' is? Does really feel like the politically correct nonsense is just an effo...
[16:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:59] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, they've already started working on the next step. 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 have all been implemented, and they've started working on the Harrison Bergeron stage. If everyone can't be equally any other way, they'll force the matter.
[16:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:02] <exec> 08└─Ah, the one where the guy likes to hang out in the park and bait people into calling the cops on him, then film them, conveniently leaving out the provocation? Which he did this time by threatening to poison her dog?
[16:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─Except they do excessive displays for mating. So they're not all about the simple either.
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─The Rush Limbaugh of the sparrow world...
[16:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:33] <exec> 08└─Shut up and watch this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:45] <exec> 08└─Why are you red-staters so eager to regulate genders and body parts? You wan't "gov't out of personal issues" unless you personally are bothered by certain personal issues. I find that hypocritical.
[16:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:47] <exec> 08└─The "AI will solve it" craze has finally passed. Now "Robots will solve it". Whatever "it" is, you can be sure researchers aren't actually trying to solve it any more. It's the same as how modern universities hire thousands of foreign laborers to churn out product with no decent training or motivati...
[16:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design and Properties of "Pentadiamond" Predicted Using Computers - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:56] <exec> 08└─Could you explain Hund's Rule? And Pauli Exclusion principle? And the Copenhagen interpretation? That would make chemistry so much clearer instead having of a bunch of dumb rules that you have to memorize. Thanks.
[16:25:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:06] <exec> 08└─That is definitely not what OP meant. But the truth is that newer video codecs do improve quality at a given bitrate or lower bitrate for a given quality. It's just that ~50% lower bitrate could be a best case scenario or the average of a bunch of scenarios. And the percentages provided could be too...
[16:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─But even when I choose, specifically, to watch anything at all: SD. I can't notice the difference, why tax the wifi / 4G / storage space / device processing when you can't tell? It's not that I couldn't SEE the difference if I really cared. It's that with any of the above setups, I can't notice it....
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─Totally world-ending!
[16:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:41] <exec> 08└─Don’t be so down on the PHB they figured out how the system works and are working it, successfully, to their advantage
[16:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:21] <exec> 08└─I was put in the pipeline for smart kids where we skipped a grade of math and took college calculus as seniors, of the 50 of us about 20 made it thru in my year, and we had to derive the quadratic eqn not just apply or memorize it, and frankly it wasn't THAT hard
[16:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:48] <exec> 08└─Yay! Like-minded! Lets get our pitchforks and torches and, oh wait, nevermind. That's being done and we'd be lost in the fray. :) I guess we need to write letters to congress. That and help them set up better constituent polling systems that can't be poisoned by hired influencers. RAM has gotten bet...
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[17:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:24] <exec> 08└─Wait, nevermind, <strike> is not in the allowed html list, so it shouldn't work.
[17:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:26] <exec> 08└─deldeldel perhaps? But it looks ok in preview.
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry, your older model is unsupported. We recommend you upgrade to a new supported model we'll lease you the rights to use.
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─But what happens when it doesn't get software/firmware updates?
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─The Raspberry Pi 4 is quite adequate as an OpenWRT router, except that you need an add on USB3 Ethernet adapter because it only has one port. But now that it's got PCIe instead of USB2 as its system bus, the performance is good enough. It's not open source, though.
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─True. Makes perfect sense that the ones manufactured by the Boomers aren't going to be as rugged as the ones manufactured by us Gen-X types.
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─Probably, yes. I'm entirely too lazy to look over every kernel security fix over the past couple years and see if any of them could realistically affect something that runs no more than a router does but it's far from impossible or even unlikely.
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─They're trying to get you to install SystemD
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─That's just for wireless. It works well in that context, but there is only a single gigabit Ethernet port on those things. It would be great to have some open hardware for building wired network appliances with 8, 12, 16, and 24 gigabit Ethernet ports, and maybe even a fibre connection or two. Maybe...
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─Politics: DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression
[17:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:57] <exec> 08└─I realize sarcasm is hard to detect online, but DannyB's comment history will give you a clue. Hint: Usually when he posts a serious comment, there will be a 'not sarcasm' label displayed. Otherwise, consider 'unlabeled' comments as humorous/sarcastic benign trolling. :-)
[17:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:59] <exec> 08└─One solution would be for the United Nations to step in and seize all these DNA databases from nations which have them.
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─People who do this irritate me. If you're never going to take a conversation seriously, why are you acting like you're contributing to it in the first place?
[17:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 1694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─I have a simple question for you. In the British Empire in the 18th to mid 19th century, what do you think the penalty was for most of any significant crime? I assume you can get the answer there right: death. So then what does that tell us about the convicts sent to Australia? Most people exiled we...
[17:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─Learn to English.
[17:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:08] <exec> 08└─One thing these ongoing riots and killings have demonstrated, is that apparently, a certain group NEEDS more policing.
[17:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:10] <exec> 08└─You're just getting over your cynicism deficiency is all.
[17:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:12] <exec> 08└─They are. Try racing on streets with red-light cams and see.
[17:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 2123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:15] <exec> 08└─Same reason hoovering up data from the internet is scarier than wire tapping: scale. Targeted collection of information is fine, collecting it on society at scale is creepy. DNA is already kind of blurring the lines between targeting and scale because it can be connected between people. Your finger...
[17:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:59] <exec> 08└─Why are you soy eaters so eager to regulate our language? We know what "male" and "female" is. Those two distinct pools is what the vast majority of animals breaks up to. Trying to push your personal issues onto us is what I find nefarious.
[17:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:00] <exec> 08└─Their AI did a whole bunch of research and came out with some uncomfortable conclusions.
[17:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:03] <exec> 08└─There's no point trying to have a rational discussion with a SJW and I speak from experience since my son became one. The wife and I decided the best thing to do was to euthanize him and then we adopted a Chinese kid. Smart move: he's obedient, understands there are only two genders, and gets good g...
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─Interesting project, but I didn't see anything there about finding GOP boundaries and just do copies of those, nor on how sound was being handled.
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─Not the only project doing it, plenty of others. I assume that FFMediaToolkit is using ffmpeg for both reading and writing though, so there's your answers unless I'm making an ass out of you and me.
[17:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:59] <exec> 08└─Evil Plan: They are looking for chip designer to make clever & novel ways to design circuits and forcing them to open source the design so they can scoop it up on the cheap for their own chips for their data centers. I'm inclined to believe they are looking for low power draw, simplicity, and IOPS p...
[17:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 2009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:00] <exec> 08└─I worked in a chip fab about a decade ago--it was more expensive to idle or shutdown the equipment that to keep it running. On any piece of equipment, if it was down for any length of time (measured in hours), it took about half a week to get it to run stable enough and most importantly, clean enoug...
[17:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:38] <exec> 08└─If you follow the link, this isn't about replacing the formula, but teaching students how to derive the formula from first principles in a way that negates the need to memorize it. That is, if you know WHY it is what it is, you don't actually need to know what it is, as you can quickly derive it aga...
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[18:22:38] <exec> 08└─looks ok here.__seclev__ 500 __version__ $Id$
[18:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─But . . . consider things that get updates, and have been around forever . . . * car radios and infotainment * television sets * phones * pocket calculators * thermostats * doorbells * pet feeders * personal music player devices (with auto-reverse!) How could a product ever be made goodfully enough...
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─Good point. I should really know better about asking that question given the sheer kernel churn these days. I swear 3.0 was an ML injoke until reality caught up. Might as well pull the bandaid real quick. If I stop posting going into next day: Bricked it.
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─Older sarcasm detectors need to be upgraded. New sarcasm detectors must be manufactured to higher standards for today's modern sarcasm generators.
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─>> Anti-psychotics are useless against this level of delusional. It's a shame they emptied out the state mental hospitals in the 50s and 60s. Society used to have a place to take care of these poor damaged souls. Now they're hire as grade school teachers.
[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─Finally we see TMB's true form, he is a "just the facts" racist. Woopsie, years of claiming otherwise down the drain :(
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─Ok racist fuckhead, time to crawl back into the sewer. The alt-righters like you have taken on a new tactic of re-hiding your racism and working double time on radicalization. Only the most shallow logic is used by you deplorables to justify your prejudice with context being a word you reserve for e...
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─Also, I'm curious about something. A couple of days ago in France there was a group of 5 "people" who wanted to board a bus that had a digital display indicating that masks were required. The driver would not let them board the bus without having masks on. So they beat him to death. The media report...
[18:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─The whole of Australia was colonized by criminals. If crime was hereditary, as you seem to infer, then shouldn't criminality in Australia be, if not the norm, at least measurebly higher, statistically ?
[18:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─Why are you asking me about someone else posting a comment? You do realize I'm not DannyB, or do you not? I was just pointing out a pattern to DannyB's comments for the benefit of the poster I was replying to, not making DannyB's comments for him. Go bother someone else, as I could not care less abo...
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is filled with racist alt-righters. Aristarchus was right all along. Hell, even TMB is jumping on the "fact" based racist bandwagon. So much anger about the fall of white hegemony, never in my life would I have thought it was so bad. "Treat other people with respect." "FUCK YOU SJW CUCK...
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:32] <exec> 08└─Ha! The racist trolls just love downmodding everyone who argues with them, but dare downmod a racist post and they cry oppression. Truly they are the most pathetic users around here.
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─. . . in the basement of a Washington DC pizza shop . . . right?
[18:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─(I didn't use any no-sarcasm tags.)
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─People who do this irritate me. If you're never going to take a conversation seriously, why are you acting like you're contributing to it in the first place?
[18:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─:( LOOK :( AT :( ME! I AM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SO THIS MAKES ME SO SAD RIGHT NOW :( YOU JUST 100% PROVED YOU ARE A RACIST MEANIE :( ALL THOSE YEARS DOWN THE DRAIN YOU ABSOLUTE SCUM SUCKING CHAMELEON :( BEING SO RIGHT ALL THE TIME IS HARD BUT I DO MY BEST TO BE THE ADULT IN THE ROOM :( MEH, B...
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─the "fact" based racist bandwagon
[18:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:14] <exec> 08└─The people you tell to "fuck off" usually aren't the ones you want to mate.
[18:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Design and Properties of "Pentadiamond" Predicted Using Computers - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:40] <exec> 08└─no idea why highschool teacher didn't simply say "probability cloud". even if he didn't understand the concept, he should have known the term, but I think he understood
[18:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:33] <exec> 08└─Aren't all UHD Blurays encoded using H265/HVEC? "Not used very much" is a bit of a stretch.
[18:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─One issue with the wall, at least in its cinema applications, is that sound doesn't (yet) travel through an LCD screen. So the sounds are all from off to the sides and top. Which doesn't work well. And would be worse in a home vs the cinema since you're probably sitting closer to it.
[18:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:34] <exec> 08└─Shakespeare was a wiseass troll.
[18:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 2708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:36] <exec> 08└─Heh, yeah, I tend to think that the primary purpose of protests is to give protestors something to do together to blow off steam. Unless the protests pose a threat greater than the lost profits/power from meeting their demands, nothing is likely to happen. (Violent protests seem to have a somewhat b...
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[19:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers See Through the Milky Way's Dust to Track Where Radiation is Coming From at the Center - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:25] <exec> 08└─Any time you look in a black hole, expect the worst.
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers See Through the Milky Way's Dust to Track Where Radiation is Coming From at the Center - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─For sanity's sake! Call Acronym Policy Enforcement on these offenders ASAP!
[19:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:39] <exec> 08└─(2) I made a mistake rolling out the change which will show up as extra text (__seclev__ 500 __version__ $Id$) below the text of the message. That was live for about an hour and is now fixed. I apologize for my error.
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─Are they done finding all the flaws in 10+ year old hardware (spectre, meltdown)? Once we get secure hardware we can get back to writing a secure OS for it. I project finishing this secure OS, maybe with a secure program to run on it, sometime next century. Hope we still have 110AC to run the secure...
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:12] <exec> 08└─The boomers knew you Gen-Xers would need something to keep you occupied and out of trouble. You notice they keep stocking lakes and streams with fish. I'm not wrong.
[19:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─Oh DannyB, you almost got me!! My sarcasm detector was having an afternoon siesta. You forgot bidets!! They've been getting hacked by the black ops. What a mess. They're just grooming us for the final complete takeover by the machines.
[19:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:16] <exec> 08└─It's complicated- not really hardware, but there have been some interesting pure hardware vulnerabilities (Rowhammer, RAMbleed, and a few others that are considered pretty low impact.) Problems are mostly in CPU firmware. You can argue that the hardware allows the vulnerability, but at some point, t...
[19:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:36] <exec> 08└─Facts? All I saw was content-less namecalling.
[19:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:38] <exec> 08└─And? I thought vandalism matters?
[19:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:40] <exec> 08└─If you're being at all honest, you know exactly who did this.
[19:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:42] <exec> 08└─Great! So have you just proven that there is no "murderer" gene? Because if there was one, it would have been bred out by now, right?
[19:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:32] <exec> 08└─What was that? That getting cheap interns to download TensorFlow and run simulations is easier than actual work?
[19:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:34] <exec> 08└─Score! Massive ZINGER. Meanwhile someone's taken away your healthcare and put $5T on your tab. Oops.
[19:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:36] <exec> 08└─Your posting history indicates it's past time for you to retire on life.
[19:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:34] <exec> 08└─uh, i think it's spelled "spozeta"?
[19:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:36] <exec> 08└─Salt and warm water is what we singers use. And you don't see too many Rock singers with brain dam- Forget it.
[19:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:20] <exec> 08└─I don't know. Yeah, I can see where multiplication is just adding multiples, but of the other two, which is more fundamental? Division or subtraction?
[19:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:58] <exec> 08└─I don't have anything against Africans, and i am not trying to hide that i am a racialist. Not a "racist" (the term "racist" is anti-white propaganda) like your TV says though.
[19:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─Like minded we are. Gotta have a mouse, and to be sure that happens, I have some small USB multi-port expanders. Keep one in your wallet. :-} Re: secondary drive, I meant I use an IDE / SATA to USB adapter. Besides my many reasons for hating planned obsolescence, my bigger concern is that newer phon...
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[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─That quote is from the BBC writer. "frequent scanning of the clipboard" sounds like poor design at best, malicious intent at worst.
[20:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─Well, it was very nice of them to stop, don't you think?
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─Tweets don't display on my machine. I think Twitter is blocked as a malicious software site, which would be consistent with TFA.
[20:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:50] <exec> 08└─I loaded the official SoylentNews app onto my Apple iPhone and it replaced all my bookmarks with links to social-justice websites, substituted my carefully curated collection of J-Lo porn with pictures of TMB in a dress, and used all of my Bitcoins to buy SoylentNews subscriptions for orphans.
[20:23:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe a much gooder idea would be to put the government in charge of router firmware and security updates. If you want the job done left right.
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:46] <exec> 08└─If the US isn't number one on the per capita COVID death rate, then who is?
[20:24:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Opportunist [5545] 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:07] <exec> 08└─Black people are five times more likely to be arrested, not to commit crimes. Jews were also a lot more likely to end up in a concentration camp than other Germans. Yes, that's hyperbole. Hey, who started it?
[20:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:11] <exec> 08└─Because someone of the same color as them, who died many generations ago, that they don't know, was traded by their african Irish tribal chiefs for slavery in exchange for pretty trinkets.
[20:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:13] <exec> 08└─Just one more proof of your average racist's intellectual inferiority.
[20:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:15] <exec> 08└─Your statements assume that race is the best lens through which to view crime rates. In fact, higher crime rates are only one of many correlations with race, and it would be ludicrous to ignore all of the other correlations. The most important correlation to crime is wealth and poverty. It's a simpl...
[20:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:17] <exec> 08└─Were they wearing red baseball caps with some motto embroidered on them?
[20:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:19] <exec> 08└─Looks like somebody longs for Communist dictators to take over and enforce the One True Culture over all those awful people over there. The ones in the news. Yup, definitely nothing dangerous about being an average Chinese person in Communist China. At least as long as you're not one of those awful...
[20:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:22] <exec> 08└─Let me follow your reasoning here. If a murder was more often punished by death in population A than population B, then you would expect after a significant period of time that population A would have less murder. Population A has more murder. Therefore...the original premise holds, and it must be t...
[20:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:54] <exec> 08└─I guess the point of my comment was lost on everyone. Bird song is like language. Humans are lazy, and screw up language by dropping syllables they don't understand or don't care about when they hear others do it. "I couldN'T care less" is what you thought you read.
[20:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─I wanted to be an ambulance driver not a scientist. Oh well, I will devote myself to research. For example, how on earth did Americans vote into office an orange clown... while performing the right choice.
[20:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:20] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about audio. My assumption is that you could just set up your 5.1/7.1 speakers wherever and use some sort of calibration software to tweak the sound output to adapt to the room's walls, furniture layout, and the speaker setup.
[20:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:21] <exec> 08└─There once was an admin from Nantucket, Who chose his chips from a bucket. When surfing the net For illicit video to wget Prompted for ssl cert he said 'Ah fuck it.'
[20:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Fab Your Chips for Free - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:23] <exec> 08└─(obviously I followed the tradition of not reading TFA)
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[20:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:07] <exec> 08└─My mistake. It's been a long time since I used the formula, and I guess I mis-remembered it. (I.e., I did remember it, but the memory was wrong.)
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[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─They only stopped because users complained. Users only complained because Apple put up an annoying notification banner whenever the app was doing it. Apple only put up the annoying notification banner because security researchers begged them to. And of course, Android apps can still do it, because G...
[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:28] <exec> 08└─"I just need this one function" "dude you just included 300 MB of libraries" "yea who cares disk is cheap" *sigh*
[21:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─+1 Snarcastic
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─pictures of TMB in a dress
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─Man, I really hate it when assholes take something somebody else said out context, criticize it, and make it impossible to find the original context. What's the point of criticizing some random stranger behind their back anyway? What if I wanted to find more dumb shit to laugh at? Why make it hard?...
[21:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─Apple wants to be seen as safe and secure with their walled garden. Then, they need to act like it. Android remains the wild west of phone operating systems. Just like Windows is the wild west of Desktop Operating Systems.
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─To some extent yes, but the lazy programmer shouldn't be scanning the clipboard either. Though, maybe they were using it send themselves error reports and the lazy programmer stuck it in the clipboard . . .
[21:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:00] <exec> 08└─You made <strike>strike</strike> work when I asked you to some time back — then much later, martyb (I think...) disabled it, because it was, according to him, not completely implemented and misbehaving somehow. I never had it misbehave myself, but I don't generally hand-write my HTML, either, I us...
[21:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:02] <exec> 08└─Just testing my new sig.
[21:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:04] <exec> 08└─Thank you very much for all the work people. I'll remove the sig after this...
[21:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:10] <exec> 08└─Did you just unironically link to a site called "whiteprivilegeisntreal.org" and expect people to accept it as a reliable source? You've been modded Flamebait, but maybe Funny would be more appropriate.
[21:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:11] <exec> 08└─No. [truecrimeforensics.com]
[21:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:13] <exec> 08└─Do you know who else was living in rural Montana? Ted Kazincski! The Unabomber! Not to mention Henry Plummer, and Soapy Smith.
[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah that was the point. I'm just happy to trigger thst all-caps dipshit. They have nothing left, their motives have been laid bare, all that is left is the wild thrashings of their ego trying to preserve their outdated world view. They claim to only support the facts yet they ignore every bit that...
[21:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:17] <exec> 08└─Not even dog whistling anymore? Fucking neo nazi shits, go back to Russia where you can stomp your boots on plenty of necks. Assuming you can catch them you fat slob.
[21:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe for you. Don't kink shame.
[21:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:13] <exec> 08└─Cause the alternative was much worse? Remember he didn't have to be good, just better then her.
[21:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Design and Properties of "Pentadiamond" Predicted Using Computers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:24] <exec> 08└─...found that the Young's modulus, a measure of hardness,
[21:26:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 976 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:46] <exec> 08└─Not like H265 is used very much. The bottom link to the MPEG: What Happened dives into what has happened with the MPEG group and how H265 never reached the pervasiveness that H264 and MPEG-2 achieved. I think AV1 is the next critical codec to target hardware around. Even ignoring the open patents, t...
[21:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Eating Amoeba: Warning Issued in Florida after Rare Infection Case - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:19] <exec> 08└─Blue teardrop made of rubber? Sounds exactly like an earwax irrigation bulb. You're not supposed to squirt the water into your nose. A neti pot looks a lot like a small teapot. You're supposed to tilt your head sideways and pour it in one nostril and it drains out the other one. My ex and the kid us...
[21:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:05] <exec> 08└─Math is actually the older of the two contractions. http://www.word-detective.com [word-detective.com]
[21:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crunch, Crunch: Africa's Locust Outbreak is Far from Over - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:44] <exec> 08└─Yep. Africa could easily feed itself, but corporations that want to buy up land first fuck over the local farmers by sending "donations".
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[22:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Senate Panel OK's EARN IT Act - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─>putting an extraordinary amount of censorship power into the hands of very few people with limited accountability. That sounds very familiar. It would have been nice if the culture in tech didn't swing wildly into authoritarianism that allowed 230 to be the target of potentially very bad legislativ...
[22:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Senate Panel OK's EARN IT Act - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─If you want freedom of expression on the internet, you have to go to a webpage that resides outside the US. Quite frankly, if you had told me that 25 years ago, I would have called you a pinko commie. Or a loony. Most likely both.
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Senate Panel OK's EARN IT Act - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Oh well. Here's hoping tech become defenders of free speech again before too much damage is done. Censorship is measured in dollars to them. Here's hoping open source, anonymous development, ad hoc networks, etc, can fill in the gaps.
[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06US Senate Panel OK's EARN IT Act - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─If you want freedom of expression on the internet, you have to go to a webpage that resides outside the US. Yeah? Where?
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Senate Panel OK's EARN IT Act - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─"... would still create its rules but it would be "voluntary" for online platforms to follow them."
[22:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─You can easily search her Twitter, which got set to private. And no one wants to use base 4, but base 12 would make sense. Base 10 is the basis of greed, while 12 makes sharing easier (divide equally among 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 comrades vs only 1, 2, 5, 10). But 2 + 2 = 4 in base 12 as well.
[22:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:27] <exec> 08└─Think it was supposed to be 86'd after someone got butthurt over it not being valid in the HTML5 spec. Really don't remember though.
[22:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06User Messages Improved! (After a Hiccup) - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:28] <exec> 08└─We just gave everyone a five percent raise. Had to. We can't have his monthly checks losing value because of inflation. They're already worth $0, so if they drop any further we'll have to use a signed int instead of an unsigned one.
[22:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:04] <exec> 08└─I'm entirely too lazy to look over every kernel security fix over the past couple years and see if any of them could realistically affect something that runs no more than a router does but it's far from impossible or even unlikely.
[22:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:06] <exec> 08└─According to https://www.worldometers.info [worldometers.info] top 5 as of today is: 1 San Marino 1,238 2 Belgium 843 3 Andorra 673 4 UK 654 5 Spain 607 Numbers are deaths / 1m population. USA comes in at number 9 with 404.
[22:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:42] <exec> 08└─Logic of the Right:
[22:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:43] <exec> 08└─Where is my soma ?
[22:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:46] <exec> 08└─The US has no left
[22:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:48] <exec> 08└─Only to the alt-right infestation is that a tough sell, everyone else with a brain capable of empathy has no problem.
[22:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, but English: I (or he, she, etc.) couldn't (N. Amer. informal also could) care less informal used to express complete indifference: he couldn't care less about football.
[22:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:24] <exec> 08└─That may be true in some cases. Where I live birds occupy the ecological niches that other animals take, because there are no native mammals, so these guys for instance [nzbirdsonline.org.nz] are super clever, and imitate everything they hear. They also teach new songs to each other. This means th...
[22:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:47] <exec> 08└─Micro$oft Tay, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org(bot) [wikipedia.org]
[22:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:54] <exec> 08└─If you are waiting for the technology to be there with decent internet speeds, it should be a few years. However, if you rely on the phone/cable monopolies (and duopolies) you will more than likely die in your sleep before your internet connection gets upgraded. (Even if you are quite young ( 20) yo...
[22:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fraunhofer HHI Announces Finalization of H.266/VCC Codec, With Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction vs. H.265 - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:55] <exec> 08└─As for hardware decoding, it really isn't necessary if you have a recent CPU. I had an old linux box with a dual core processor (and integrated graphics) that was from 2008. (and it was a value AMD product from the time, not top end.) It had no problem at all with playing 1080p h.264 movies at all....
[22:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:45] <exec> 08└─I disagree on two axes: 1. I had the misfortune - long story - of attending a religious university and had mathematics and computer science professors that were technically brilliant but still devoutly religious. Being unable to understand math is unrelated to being irrational about bearded sky gods...
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[23:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Senate Panel OK's EARN IT Act - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:25] <exec> 08└─It would have been nice if the culture in tech didn't swing wildly into authoritarianism that allowed 230 to be the target of potentially very bad legislative change.
[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Senate Panel OK's EARN IT Act - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─I will 1) Serve the private trust 2) Protect the guilty 3) Uphold the copyright law
[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Senate Panel OK's EARN IT Act - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, and only use communication mechanisms provided by hostile to the USA powers. Being true for awhile already.
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─Reddit and LinkedIn are websites. For accessing with a web browser. I don't see any need for using a shitty app. I use both but Reddit lately nags the shit out of me to use their app. Wonder why they put so much effort into that, as a business. Hmm. Yeah, bullshit. I'll find a new website to use bef...
[23:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:53] <exec> 08└─Divide equally? Sounds like Communism. That's why I use base 11.
[23:24:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─The logic of the Left leads to not going after criminals because they don't want to "oppress" them. Criminals get rights over the victims of their crimes.
[23:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Databases in the U.S. and China are Tools of Racial Oppression - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:34] <exec> 08└─Weather Underground / Black Panthers & Antifa / Black Lives Matter.
[23:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:12] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The (N. Amer. informal also could) part is exactly what is similar with these bird calls. The N. Amer. birds don't give a damn about the right way to sing the song. They could[sic] care less about that third note.
[23:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A "Viral" New Bird Song in Canada is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:13] <exec> 08└─The birds around here can definitely understand the alarm calls of the other birds and the squirrels, rabbits, groundhogs etc. I've seen my cat lose his prey many times because it was warned by a chipmunk or a bluejay sitting in a tree. My cat also attempts to mimic their calls, but he's not been ve...
[23:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robotic Scientists Will "Speed Up Discovery" - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:37] <exec> 08└─With a price tag like £100,000 this robotic thingie has to be shared, right? So it's like a timesharing mainframe back in the olden times when computers had to be shared because they were rare and expensive. I'm younger than personal computer technology so there hasn't been a time in my lifetime th...
[23:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fixers Know What "Repairable" Means—Now There’s a Standard for It - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:02] <exec> 08└─IMHO, if economics worked as advertised (cough cough), companies like MS and Deere would have gone out of business years ago. There are too many other factors at work and simple economic theory is almost useless, certainly useless on its own in the real world.
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