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[00:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:24] <exec> 08└─The Star called "Wormwood". Revelation 8:10-11: “The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from...
[00:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:26] <exec> 08└─Won't you be a part time skeleton by then though? Maybe there's still time to become a part time mummy!
[00:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:37] <exec> 08└─Next up, working fusion and flying cars
[00:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:39] <exec> 08└─Years ago, on the other website (pre-Soylent), there was an article on a great new treatment for Cancer. A virus that targeted cancer cells. The documentation was thorough and the company looked legit. 20+ years later, still nothing. No FDA approval. Never got past a phase 2 test, even. Stock has go...
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:41] <exec> 08└─In the USA, it's a fucked up system where the poor rightfully get free health care, but if you manage to crawl even a little bit above poverty level, the free healthcare suddenly quits and you need $500/month health insurance. So the rich and the poor have healthcare, and the middle class are fucked...
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:43] <exec> 08└─It is not "take a shot and forget about it" thing. It's "I'll get all your money and then some" thing, while you suffer meserably.
[00:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:45] <exec> 08└─> The overly generous government health insurance plan ensures that diversity-hire BIPOCs will get it too, on taxpayer's tab. I work for the government. I pay $650/mo for a catastrophic only plan with a $7500 deductible through my government employer (a school). The *identical* plan purchased off th...
[00:23:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:03] <exec> 08└─They've basically reinvented statically-compiled executables, but badly.
[00:23:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 379 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:05] <exec> 08└─The "people who invented Unix" meant for everything to be a FILE, NOT every application being mounted as a fileSYSTEM.. Ramik is absolutely CORRECT!!! Damn snaps pollute a "df" with a /dev/loopx fileSYSTEM for each and every snap you are tricked into installing or choose to install.. Seriously consi...
[00:23:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 1324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:09] <exec> 08└─This isn't about that though: Linux Mint happily offers a whole bunch of applications as Flatpak alongside apt-based installs. For browsers this actually makes some sense: They are an extremely fast-moving target, so it takes a lot of effort[1] to keep up as a distro: either to backport changes so t...
[00:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:38] <exec> 08└─>Real transvestites use Ubuntu. No, they use any Linux but change the appearance to Redmond or Aqua.
[00:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:39] <exec> 08└─IIUC, though, Slackware doesn't have a package manager, so you don't get told when something needs to be updated. OTOH, I've never used it, so I could easily be wrong. A package manager sure isn't a cure for things on it's own, as shown by the current article, but there are lots of reasons why it's...
[00:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:41] <exec> 08└─I agree, that always bothered the hell out of me. Fuck snaps. Just make a regular RPM or something. Or hell, just make a tarball with all the shared libraries in the same folder as the executable, and e.g. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`. Lots of developers used to do that, I wish they'd do it again. I...
[00:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:44] <exec> 08└─To avoid these issues and more, use Slackware or Gentoo.
[00:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:46] <exec> 08└─I do love Fedora, despite it being pozzed with systemd. It's a clean, secure, fairly vanilla distro, which is exactly what I like. It doesn't patch all its packages and stick custom logos and shit in everything like Debian does, and rpm/dnf nowadays is actually much *more* reliable than dpkg/apt, sp...
[00:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:48] <exec> 08└─Developers would strongly disagree! Too much variety in the code-base makes any compile environment absolute hell. It's one of the major reasons why Linux has always had a problem with wide stream adoption: Too many fucking forks!
[00:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:50] <exec> 08└─In order to be able to use Zoom without installing the native Zoom app, which might do who knows what.
[00:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:52] <exec> 08└─With an elephant, a kazoo, and a tuning fork in Linus' office.
[00:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:55] <exec> 08└─Did Ubuntu go full fellatio to the copyright cartels and allow completely unreadable, uneditable binaries be installed on their systems? And, if so, in the case of Chrome, made it the only install option to the point of backdooring it when you tried to install it with apt-get? I haven't used Ubuntu...
[00:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:57] <exec> 08└─There's things like slackpkg that do a good job of checking the Slackware mirrors for new files and upgrading to them. In fact, modern Slackware is surprisingly easy to get up and running, no Ubuntu or Mint, but weirdly not far off, so long as you're okay with using the terminal. Was amazed when I i...
[00:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:59] <exec> 08└─The copyright cartels have been trying to force hard-coded DRM that you can't bypass on a system that is tied to the hardware (TPM) with a unique serial number for each computer (yes, both Intel and AMD capitulated on this). Now, it's just getting the browser vendors to completely play ball as it is...
[00:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:01] <exec> 08└─It's a typo should be call Ubuttu
[00:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Exports Independent Repair Provider Program to Europe and Canada - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:12] <exec> 08└─silly chinese. they really DONT get it. everybody needs "apple" replacement part and since the original is made in china and the clubermint dont care much about trademark or copyright (unless it goes against THE only and most important trademark: the central command) them manufacturers should just w...
[00:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:35] <exec> 08└─Same from Philippines, I suspect Soylent is doing blanket IP blocking
[00:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:36] <exec> 08└─.... You know too much. The gerbils will be along to devour you shortly.
[00:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shock-Dissipating Fractal Cubes Could Forge High-Tech Armor - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:52] <exec> 08└─While the .50 caliber was being developed, some German T Gewehr 1918 anti-tank rifles and ammunition were seized. The German rounds had a muzzle velocity of 2,700 ft/s (820 m/s), an 800 gr (52 g) bullet, and could penetrate armor 1 in (25 mm) thick at a range of 250 yd (230 m).[16] Winchester improv...
[00:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IT Pros Indicted after Arranging Credit Card Payments for Weed Startup - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:58] <exec> 08└─I should be allowed to sell highly addictive drugs. You know the ones that decimate families, communities, and entire neighborhoods. The drugs that kill people. Because it is obviously moral and correct and it is my choice. Thanks.
[00:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City Builds Open-Access Broadband Network with Google Fiber as its First ISP - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:57] <exec> 08└─once the City installs conduit
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[01:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:32] <exec> 08└─The closest it gets to Earth is 64 million miles. The Earth is 93 million miles from the sun. I hope you can figure out from this that getting closer to Earth isn't going to make it noticeably brighter. You can see a magnitude graph at this page [aerith.net]. The magnitiude is only going to be going...
[01:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe there's still time to become a part time mummy!
[01:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:36] <exec> 08└─Xenu will save us in a DC-8.
[01:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─+ 1 Insightful. That's the best I can do, due to Taft Hartley. You're welcome.
[01:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, the US health system is the worse of all possible systems (apart from Somalia's, presumably) but the weird thing is that all you guys have to do is look at your friends and neighbours to see lots of better systems that you could cherry-pick to get the best possible system ever. It's not like y...
[01:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:59] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu *has been* evil since it started the coffee-shop motif. The word "ubuntu" itself has been badly misappropriated by the project, as the idea behind it ("Linux for human beings," meaning pretty much *everyone*) has long since been left in the dust. It's sickening to watch.
[01:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:35] <exec> 08└─I've actually feared them for a long time. I kind of equate them to the Borg. They're in it for the very long haul. They may suffer setbacks along the way, but they're very industrious, smart, and very determined. I'm not sure what their end-game is, but it seems like world domination. I wish I unde...
[01:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:36] <exec> 08└─Have you, um...read, like, *anything* about European history? All kinds of "white" folks have been massacring one another in waves for centuries on centuries there. Also, can you please tell me exactly when krauts, micks, dagos, polacks, and frogs--'scuse me, Germans, Irish, Italians, Poles, and the...
[01:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:38] <exec> 08└─From time to time, I watch something about Siberia. Recently, a video about "the coldest city in the world". It always strikes me that many or even most residents of Siberia look more Chinese or Mongolion than they look European. So, yeah, near neighbors who look like "us" want to spend money, as op...
[01:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:40] <exec> 08└─I can't really agree with all of that. China DOES have a long history. And, China does have it's masters who can learn from history. But, face it, China was conquered by force of arms, and a more efficient bureaucracy than China itself had. Europeans had a very definite technological edge over China...
[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─You are much too passionate on the subject. Calm down, sit back, and think a few moments. The UK sold these people out almost thirty years ago. All of the world's powers understood that, when it happened. Everyone knew that the iron fist would be put to use, sooner or later. Big deal - it's a little...
[01:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shock-Dissipating Fractal Cubes Could Forge High-Tech Armor - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, oww! The thing about a Ma Deuce, you have hundreds, or even thousands, of those projectiles flying around. Take two or more of them, and set them up to catch your targets in a crossfire. They'll tear even most armored vehicles to shreds, given a few minutes. Put AP rounds in them, and it won't...
[01:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Rules: Foreign Pupils Must Leave US if Classes Go Online-Only - 3899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:33] <exec> 08└─The AC below you raised some excellent points, but I'm going to add some of my own (and I've said these to ol' devilbird up there at least once, which means he's just been sticking his head in the sand ever since): Non-contingent existence ("divine aseity" in the argot of theologians) goes hand-in-h...
[01:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Rules: Foreign Pupils Must Leave US if Classes Go Online-Only - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:34] <exec> 08└─So you have no actual rebuttals to any of my arguments, and all you're gonna do is throw insults? Classic. There is far less daylight between you and the fundamentalists you claim to shit on than you think. Also, "Fallacy fallacy" alert! Someone can be a bigot and still be correct! Even if they're c...
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[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─Other than just goofing off until a parasite shows up [youtube.com].
[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─Wow. That is batshit. Surely no adults actually believe that stuff?
[02:23:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:55] <exec> 08└─Developers would strongly disagree! Too much variety in the code-base makes any compile environment absolute hell. It's one of the major reasons why Linux has always had a problem with wide stream adoption: Too many fucking forks!
[02:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:04] <exec> 08└─Actually in Plan 9 applications did in fact expose much of their interfaces via the 9p protocol for the explicit purpose of being mounted in the filesystem for both IPC, network transparency and user interactivity. e.g. Your text editor would have its file menu and window content (buffers/tabs) as f...
[02:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:43] <exec> 08└─Actually, the NSA does that for us for free - we don't have to be arsed with it. - Buzzard Acolyte
[02:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 0615 Billion Credentials Currently Up for Grabs on Hacker Forums - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:20] <exec> 08└─> particularly if financial gain is involved. There it is. Web site and data erasure vandalism might be fun and all, but in most cases it doesn't make the perps any money. A protection I rely on is not all this security theater, it's that most of my online accounts and activities aren't worth anythi...
[02:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 0615 Billion Credentials Currently Up for Grabs on Hacker Forums - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:21] <exec> 08└─Either faith or Wireshark + Chrome debugger, both are good options.
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[03:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─Another post from out resident "thanatophobic". Take it from me, not dying has it's down sides. One is you have to put up with all the abuse for uneducated and inexperienced neophytes. The other is that more and more defecation becomes the highpoint of your day. But if you have to resort to Young...
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:26] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for some dumbfuck idiot that reads this and starts going zombie on somebody's belly fat.
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself Greekoid, you Eastern-types always were melodramatic.
[03:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─And you Romans, what with the "falling on your sword", the fratricides, the incest, and the Imperium? Best not to pitch lithia, in praesentia cum domo speculo.
[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:33] <exec> 08└─...acid reflux, allergies, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus (even though it's never lupus). https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I don't think I'm ready for this treatment.
[03:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─IIRC, other tests have shown practically the same results by filtering "pollutants" out of the blood. (Can't remember if I ever knew exactly what those pollutants were, something that increases with age.) Other tests have shown similar results by killing off senescent cells. All of these approaches...
[03:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─Revelation 13:17 " And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. "
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─Chernobyl (Чернобыль) is the Russian word for the plant with the scientific name Artemisia vulgaris, or the wormwood plant. I remember they were crowing about Revelation 8 back in 1986 too after the nuclear disaster happened there. Halley's comet's last return was that year as well, althoug...
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[03:22:56] <exec> 08└─Phoenix666 was just asking me what I meant when I said "All this will soon be over." I did not answer him.
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:58] <exec> 08└─I remember the one and only comet I've seen, the great comet of 1997. It covered half the sky. I had a memorable (commercial, jet, open cockpit) flight from a job interview at that time, 4 crew, 3 passengers. We could see the comet out of the windows and we were all enjoying it. I thought it was nam...
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[03:24:22] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with the troll mod here. Ubuntu changed their whole desktop in a minor version update. I ran it then and it totally fucked my machine up with no warning, and there was no rollback mechanism. I wouldn't spare a squirt of piss if they burst into flames.
[03:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:23] <exec> 08└─But the coin only has two sides
[03:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 3627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:26] <exec> 08└─https://pdfernhout.net/microslaw.html [pdfernhout.net] ===== This was originally posted to Slashdot on May 25 2002: http://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] It was in relation to an article: "MPAA to Senate: Plug the Analog Hole!" about the MPAA wanting co...
[03:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IT Pros Indicted after Arranging Credit Card Payments for Weed Startup - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:28] <exec> 08└─Whether or not the banks knew about the transaction they are liable for processing those payments. A sales clerk can still be fired for selling alcohol to a minor when the minor presented an entirely passable ID showing the minor is over 21. I'm not saying its a good law, but it is unfortunately a v...
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[04:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─about [lidsen.com] telomeres [nih.gov]?
[04:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─Have you ever considered piracy chelation? It is just as scientifically established as Naturopathy, Stupidopathy, and Homeopathy, and Homopathos. Send in for our free informational bomb!
[04:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:17] <exec> 08└─I pay $650/mo for a catastrophic only plan with a $7500 deductible through my government employer (a school). The *identical* plan purchased off the California ACA exchange from the same insurance company is $75/mo after subsidy per my income level.
[04:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:18] <exec> 08└─Consider the same about a purported Covid-19 vaccine.
[04:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:20] <exec> 08└─We The People agree with you. Something's blocking the road though.
[04:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:03] <exec> 08└─That's OK. People who want systemd should be able to have it. People who don't shouldn't have it forced on them.
[04:24:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:25] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu *has been* evil since it started the coffee-shop motif. The word "ubuntu" itself has been badly misappropriated by the project, as the idea behind it ("Linux for human beings," meaning pretty much *everyone*) has long since been left in the dust. It's sickening to watch.
[04:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:31] <exec> 08└─Not to my knowledge, but, if you like Cinnamon (which is a big thing in Mint), you can install Cinnamon in Devuan. In version 2, it's one of the options you have when installing Devuan. Devuan just came out with version 3 and I assume Cinnamon is in version 3, but I haven't checked it out yet.
[04:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:13] <exec> 08└─There are documentaries on Amazon Prime co-produced by French and Russians that discuss how Chinese interests have been siphoning away Siberian timber and other resources.
[04:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:14] <exec> 08└─Care to elaborate on this "intense resentment"? I see life expectency in several African countries has reached 60s now, when it was 40s before China got involved.
[04:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:16] <exec> 08└─They were refused special funding bonds for Covid-19, for one. Also, northern do-gooders are encouraging and conveying a steady supply of illegal immigrants into the country.
[04:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 4962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:18] <exec> 08└─When I was working at the IBM Speech Group circa 2000 I heard that a Chinese national was caught copying all the source code of IBM's ViaVoice speech recognition software to send to China. Not sure what happened to her in the end... Of course, what goes around comes around: Westerners smuggled silk...
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[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─See? the abuse for uneducated and inexperienced neophytes.
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[05:27:04] <exec> 08└─Password reuse
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[06:22:20] <exec> 08└─Suck my biatch, you biatch! I have the biatch for you right here, biatch! SJW, you biatch! Snowflake, you biatch! Mother-loving (in a literal sense) Goddamned (if there was a god) Pink dyeing; Oh, wait, is that you, Mighty Buzzard who is now Lord of All East Oklahoma? [reuters.com] Pending Appea...
[06:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:22] <exec> 08└─Pretty soon we won't be able to speak the Queen's English!
[06:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:45] <exec> 08└─Or you know, instead of buying this new transfusion subscription they're developing you could lose the belly fat so there's nothing to trigger the inflammation in the first place. This is an example of people seeing what they expect to see. "Frailty and immune decline are two main features of old ag...
[06:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 1613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:06] <exec> 08└─Every once in a while I attempt to educate Soylentils. For the most part, it is a thankless task. But here we do have a teachable moment. Why are Comets such bad news? Portents of Doom? Distablizers of the Established Order? Sign of the ascendency of William the Conquer, and equally the descendency...
[06:23:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 1003 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:22] <exec> 08└─> The overly generous government health insurance plan ensures that diversity-hire BIPOCs will get it too, on taxpayer's tab. I work for the government. I pay $650/mo for a catastrophic only plan with a $7500 deductible through my government employer (a school). The *identical* plan purchased off th...
[06:25:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 1100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:39] <exec> 08└─Hardly uninterrupted. Interrupted many times. Interrupted by Mongols, Manchus, Tibetans, Japanese, various European powers, weird religious cults in China, and so on. It could be argued that there has been relative cultural continuity across all those eras, but that does not constitute "master at pl...
[06:26:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 1023 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:12] <exec> 08└─I've actually feared them for a long time. I kind of equate them to the Borg. They're in it for the very long haul. They may suffer setbacks along the way, but they're very industrious, smart, and very determined. I'm not sure what their end-game is, but it seems like world domination. I wish I unde...
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[06:31:49] <exec> 08└─from the Feinman's-Fuming dept.
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[07:23:19] <exec> 08└─Not the GP but I have a guess. In the U.S., if you have group insurance offered through an employer, you don't get the subsidy unless one of two requirements are met. First is that the insurance offered by your employer cannot be considered "affordable" (premiums are less than 9.78% of their income)...
[07:27:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06IT Pros Indicted after Arranging Credit Card Payments for Weed Startup - 585 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:21] <exec> 08└─I therefore posit that the US is not fully governed by the law anymore. US seems to have rule-of-law pretty similar to China actually (though in different ways; China doesn't have the infighting between states and the fed). In fact, if you think about it, the US and China are growing to resemble eac...
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[08:22:20] <exec> 08└─Right into a stopped police car.
[08:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:45] <exec> 08└─Running Zoom app which does who knows what, vs. running Chromium which does who knows what...
[08:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:46] <exec> 08└─That's like African for "Can't install Devuan", right?
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[09:22:15] <exec> 08└─The good thing is that the driving license soon will not be considered a necessity and a lot of substandard drivers could be deprived of it without making them a substandard citizens. OTOH, it will be gradually made mandatory before reaching the abilities of the average driver.
[09:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:16] <exec> 08└─Even if one resolves any and all glitches, which is itself probably impossible, there will always be unavoidable circumstances that lead to a bad outcome. And what will happen when somebody dies in one of these accidents? People have become knee jerk reactionaries. The argument will that the vehicle...
[09:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 1639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:18] <exec> 08└─Up until now, Tesla has refused liability for the deaths/damage caused by autopilot driven Teslas on the argument that "autopilot is an aid, not a driver replacement, the driver is responsible. They must be attentive with hands on the wheel at all times". With this new system, where they make a poin...
[09:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─So will you? Your vulgar and unintelligible gibberish from over this little pool of water of ours (and it is really ours) is hard to bear even now.
[09:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:30] <exec> 08└─To be fair, have you heard pommies speak these days, innit?
[09:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:32] <exec> 08└─A generation tends to be about 30 years on average. That's 300 years. So this article's suggestion is akin to claiming that e.g. Benjamin Franklin wouldn't be able to understand somebody of today. He'd need to be brought up to speed on a bit of slang and technical terms, but the language is still fu...
[09:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:34] <exec> 08└─I know you are joking, but actually, it is a bit the opposite. Which is also my comment on the article, it not not sufficiently acknowledge this, despite identifying language evolution that is already going on. On earth at least, languages in the colonies seem to have changed _slower_ than the langu...
[09:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:37] <exec> 08└─Shaka, when the walls fell.
[09:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:39] <exec> 08└─I always wondered how they passed on those stories without a more generic language.
[09:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Missions to Mars Happening this Month - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:46] <exec> 08└─LASER TAG!
[09:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:26] <exec> 08└─The comet, right now, looks quite spectacular, judging from the many pictures I've seen in specialist astro groups - yes, the ones on APOD are nice too (specifically today's, not everyone gets to take such a one...). I missed my chance a few days back when weather would have permitted a view, I'll s...
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[10:22:28] <exec> 08└─Insurance will pay for accidents, just like it does for human drivers. Tesla will put an indemnification clause in the car purchasing agreement when you buy an autopilot equipped car, and insurance companies won't even mind because the self driving cars will be safer than human drivers, even if they...
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[10:22:29] <exec> 08└─If its like our government's response to covid 19, they will ban all automobiles because there are some that have autopilot.
[10:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:31] <exec> 08└─I don't know about others, but I don't want to be responsible for something that I do not control. So if I am responsible, I will have final overriding control over the vehicle, making the "self driving" thing a non starter.
[10:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:46] <exec> 08└─Genetics will probably drift apart faster than the languages will. That doesn't mean they won't change, of course, but no reason they shouldn't change more or less in sync with Earth. Interstellar colonists will find themselves with a communication lag of several years from Earth, but a physical tra...
[10:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─Because it's fiction.
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[10:22:49] <exec> 08└─Look, if you are going to troll for the Kremlin, you might want to aim for a bit more subtlety. Try not to be quite so obvious.
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[11:22:29] <exec> 08└─On the nice wide roads of the USA, and the major trunk routes, maybe. On the narrow streets of European towns, not a chance. Just look at the current autopilot videos on youtube and laugh at how hideously dangerous it is.
[11:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:31] <exec> 08└─Commercially it may have been a good idea, but legally it was a bad idea to call it 'auto pilot' while it is none, but apparently they're getting away with it.
[11:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:33] <exec> 08└─Even worse, the streets of New Delhi, India. Good freakin' luck getting any sort of auto pilot to work there.
[11:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─I'm convinced that it will exist someday, but we're still in the stone age of artificial intelligence. I agree that it won't be possible with traditional coding, containing millions of decision trees. But I'm sure that in time, true AI auto pilots will become better than human drivers and death rate...
[11:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:53] <exec> 08└─I disagree on a number of levels. So this article's suggestion is akin to claiming that e.g. Benjamin Franklin wouldn't be able to understand somebody of today. He'd need to be brought up to speed on a bit of slang and technical terms, but the language is still functionally identical.
[11:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:40] <exec> 08└─Halley's 1986 was a dud. Do you have any idea how long that was hyped in the news before barely appearing? Decades.
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[11:23:42] <exec> 08└─You could switch some of the key words and have modern history... Covid means that we are part of a not-quite finished biological system, and the future is not determined. Trump means that we are part of a not-quite finished political system, and the future is not determined. Pelosi means that we ar...
[11:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:05] <exec> 08└─There is absolutely zero business interest in curing or fixing problems. The money is in treatments that make people dependent on the treatment, keeping them alive only long enough to suck their insurance and wallet dry.
[11:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:19] <exec> 08└─OTOH it's not "Ubuntu turning evil", they're trying to fix a genuine problem related to out-of-date libs in LTS versions. Their solution seems OK until you look in a bit more detail and realise it results in unepected behaviour for some users. Hopefully they'll realise this is a problem and address...
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[11:27:03] <exec> 08└─The Sami (native Scandinavians) also have mongoloid features.
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[12:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:00] <exec> 08└─The cause is the secret weapon used by the lizard people.
[12:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:02] <exec> 08└─Cuba has water tanker trucks spraying pesticide along the sides of the streets which was being inhaled by everyone.
[12:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:04] <exec> 08└─If there is a place and time to downplay the influence of radiation on the health, it is here and now, so, screw whatever happened, official investigations are unlikely to go anywhere.
[12:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:06] <exec> 08└─no.. "stress beams" usually created by PHBs and MBAs, now available for select embassy staff.
[12:23:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 1639 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:28] <exec> 08└─Up until now, Tesla has refused liability for the deaths/damage caused by autopilot driven Teslas on the argument that "autopilot is an aid, not a driver replacement, the driver is responsible. They must be attentive with hands on the wheel at all times". With this new system, where they make a poin...
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[12:23:37] <exec> 08└─Full self-driving Tesla tech is "very close" to failing miserably. I'll be here all day!
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[12:23:57] <exec> 08└─Having immigrated to Switzerland, where many areas were relatively remote until just a few decades ago, I find the dialects fascinating. The spoken language in the German areas is known as "Swiss German", but that's an umbrella term. Go to two areas at opposite ends of the country (we're talking may...
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[13:22:17] <exec> 08└─Good question!
[13:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─However, I think this mystery is far from solved. For example: Why were diplomats & embassy staff, predominantly from the US and Canada, affected?, Why not other American citizens? Why only between the years 2016 and 2109?
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:21] <exec> 08└─then they got a normal dude in late 2018
[13:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:23] <exec> 08└─I have trouble believing mass hysteria as a singular explanation for this. I'm not saying that there isn't a psychological component or that for some it was psychosomatic, but the evidence just doesn't line up with that as the only conclusion. There were MRI studies that concluded there were brain d...
[13:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:31] <exec> 08└─building it with a 3D printer will be easier because the printer won’t have to move around as much
[13:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─Exhibit1) The book Red Mars had them underground because of radiation. Exhibit 2) Musk started Boring Company to easily dig tunnels on Mars.
[13:22:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03xorsyst [1372] 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:47] <exec> 08└─On the nice wide roads of the USA, and the major trunk routes, maybe. On the narrow streets of European towns, not a chance. Just look at the current autopilot videos on youtube and laugh at how hideously dangerous it is.
[13:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:52] <exec> 08└─Insurance will pay for accidents, just like it does for human drivers. Tesla will put an indemnification clause in the car purchasing agreement when you buy an autopilot equipped car, and insurance companies won't even mind because the self driving cars will be safer than human drivers, even if they...
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:54] <exec> 08└─Question or problem then is that this, a completely self driving car, probably isn't legal on the road. The law will probably be playing catch-up on this for a long time. I don't see this being a thing for quite some time. That said some people I know that got Tesla say they more or less already dri...
[13:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but manual pilot doesn't work there either.
[13:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:59] <exec> 08└─> I'm convinced that it will exist someday Why?
[13:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:19] <exec> 08└─If you look at the English languge, and how it changed from 1200ad to even 1500ad. Or from then, to the 1900s... maasive, compared to the 20th and 21st even. Why? Well, literacy for one. Most language was oral only, as most could not read... which means isolated areas did diverge. However with high...
[13:25:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:25] <exec> 08└─To avoid these issues and more, use Slackware or Gentoo.
[13:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:44] <exec> 08└─Ironically, higher level languages don't care much about libc, and all three of the big BSDs OpenFreeNet all use the same BSD-libc, just like macos. Also ironically there was SUPER heavy drama about a decade ago in Linux-Land about GNU libc and its numerous forks and competitors but that seems to ha...
[13:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:45] <exec> 08└─make sure that bitrot and OS mutation don't break your stuff nearly as much. It's a great system.
[13:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:47] <exec> 08└─I'm please to see we're both professional enough to occasionally agree on things. The real Ubuntu problem fundamentally is their definition of "human beings" is defined and controlled by marketing people who've never actually used a computer or sysadmin'd anything and don't intend to in the future....
[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:49] <exec> 08└─It's optional in Debian too. However, Debian allows all its other components to place hard dependencies on systemd components, thereby making it de-facto compulsory. But happily, the elogind package from AntiX ships with an API-compatible libsystemd.so, thereby allowing pretty much anything from Deb...
[13:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:36] <exec> 08└─They were not. The EU cannot forbid a member country to give out bonds: it simply has no jurisdiction. If you're talking about eurobonds (which do not exist yet): that's a tool with enormous geopolitical implications. Those will not arrive until the economical and political relation with the United...
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[14:22:28] <exec> 08└─Nuff said
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:43] <exec> 08└─Some cicada species have long life cycles [wikipedia.org], spanning years, most of which is underground. See periodical cicadas [wikipedia.org].
[14:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:45] <exec> 08└─If it's something that some party actively caused, what motive could they have? Annoy a bunch of random diplomats? If it's a test run for affecting some other target, why not experiment on diplomats from Burkina Faso or some other place that does not have a lot of resources to investigate and (possi...
[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:47] <exec> 08└─Only on Americans. Because they're exceptional.
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─Annoy a bunch of random diplomats?
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:51] <exec> 08└─Now, let's do some logic. Imagine for a moment we already have such a weapon. What is the most effective method of using it against our adversaries?
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─(Damn I'm old!)
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─There are good reasons why round is a bad idea for a house, but architects seem to love them. Where to you put the book cases? The closets? The food storage? How do you access them for maintenance? Where to you put the couch? The bed? There are answers for each of those questions, but there don't se...
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─Other round structures. Water tower. Fuel tower -- storage for manufactured fuel. Short height but round structures such as garage or workshop. Can a roof be printed. I know this is less materials efficient than the taller egg / hive structure for living quarters. 5G cell tower to help spread covid...
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─Which is cheaper or more practical to deliver and build on Mars: * material efficient round structure at cost of having to answer the square peg questions * square structure that costs more materials and energy to construct but solves interior design issues efficiently Book cases probably require bo...
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─Could useful energy be obtained by attaching fascinating solar panels to the correct portions of exterior round structure? The path of the sun is predictable and stable.
[14:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:32] <exec> 08└─Which makes them quite dangerous when "very close" (grin)
[14:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:34] <exec> 08└─Almost there - all that's left is the last 10% that takes 90% of the work.
[14:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:36] <exec> 08└─Actually they do
[14:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:57] <exec> 08└─My language changes on long flights and that's before I get to the hotel and hit the mini-bar.
[14:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:58] <exec> 08└─Benjamin Franklin wouldn't be able to understand somebody of today. He'd need to be brought up to speed on a bit of slang and technical terms,
[14:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─I was just going to say... I really hope the SJW's do not develop the language used on interstellar flights or anywhere else in the universe. If they did then humankind will have no chance of survival because no one will want to screw.
[14:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─Don't be on it being smaller. A star ship will need a population large enough to maintain the technology required to repair it...that's more city sized than village sized, and even then I'm depending on HUGE databases and other "automated learning assistants" (often in the form of virtual reality)....
[14:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. The Darmok episode was all about speaking in metaphors. Many people do it without even realizing it.
[14:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:07] <exec> 08└─EF... The flight from Montgomery to Lindbergh is only 5 minutes.
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[15:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:22] <exec> 08└─Yesterday the mayor of Seoul fell into a lake... or was he pushed? And the CEO of MSI falls from a building... or was he thrown? Seems like a lot of Chinamen are having health issues... is this somehow related to the Chinese liberation of Hong Kong?
[15:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps he couldn't deal with the fact that despite putting blue LEDs in everything, all anyone wants these days are stupid retarded ear-raping toy cell phones, and not actual computers.
[15:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:25] <exec> 08└─“a severe head injury with a stroke and contusions”, according to local reports Yeah... How many times did he fall out of the window?
[15:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:27] <exec> 08└─> Seems like a lot of Chinamen are having health issues Sure are, but none of them are listed in your post.
[15:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─Seven stories, that's some slip. Somebody put some friction tape on those stairs! At least it wasn't a suicide, like Epstein's. *snicker*
[15:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:31] <exec> 08└─They both may well have been suicides, but you have to wonder what happened to motivate them. What they knew, or were threatened with, and by whom...
[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─Will this delay shipment of their new motherboards?
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─When in reality the trucks were filled with Gringo repellent.
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─Path of the sun might be predictable and stable, but access to it (i.e. visibility) definitely isn't on Mars. Solar panels will need to be in a maintainable (think cleaning dust off) location and have massive battery backup for weeks-long dust storms. You probably want multiple redundant power (sola...
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─My guess is that a radial design introduces it's own difficulties. Have you seen a radial printer of any sort? Essentially every paper printer I've seen works almost identically, a head moving back and forth along one line. A 3D Printer essentially uses a lot of the same mechanics, but in a 3D envir...
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:36] <exec> 08└─This is actually a global problem. Calling for a global solution. Self driving cars would gradually appear globally. Thus driver licenses could globally disappear -- requiring a new mandatory global identification system. For your safety! Also for your safety, suppose the car knows the identify of e...
[15:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─IMO: because of the sheer amount of wasted human productivity spent on driving automobiles that could be used for better things. The motive to develop full self driving is very high.
[15:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:40] <exec> 08└─Yes however the police will be gone by then because BLM.
[15:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:42] <exec> 08└─In answer to all of the above questions of liability: the decisions will come out of courts and juries.
[15:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:44] <exec> 08└─It would work if most cars had autopilot, especially if they're all inter-networked and coordinate movement. The world already has huge swarms of "drone" copters flying in formation, each having to compensate for varying winds, including those from other drones.
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─As is the motive to develop teleportation!
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─Re: small windy towns- do those "autopilots" have pre-loaded maps they follow? Seems if they did it would be pretty easy to base the driving on known maps and make adjustments from there. Over the years there have been many proposals for some kind of guidance system embedded in roadways. RFID tags c...
[15:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:51] <exec> 08└─Depends on your aim, I suppose: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:53] <exec> 08└─"Automated driver only" lanes on highways would be easy to implement and could stage in the automation, once there is a reasonable base level of adoption (say 10 % of cars have automated driver).
[15:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:55] <exec> 08└─All objects of significant enough size+mass moving at a significant enough speed are dangerous when "very close".
[15:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─I don't know for a fact who to blame for choosing such a misleading name. In the absence of information, the most likely source of blame would be: Marketing (as always), backed up by Management.
[15:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─Good freakin' luck getting any sort of auto pilot to work there.
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:02] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. It actually works like this. As one would expect. The first 90% of the result takes 90% of the work, time and cost. The remaining 10% of the result takes the other 90% of the work, time and cost.
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─"while it is none". Clearly you've never used an actual autopilot. Even the most advanced ones require pilot attention. They just keep the oily side facing down for the most part.
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─Because the only thing that we don't have yet is good enough AI. Technology already beats us with eyesight (and not only visible light), hearing, attention, fatigue, hormones, shock seconds, and many other things that make humans average drivers at best.
[15:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, the languages did change significantly in that time. No, the change does not constitute any practical problem.
[15:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:35] <exec> 08└─Good.
[15:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:37] <exec> 08└─Can you imagine how difficult it would be to translate the constantly updated Code of Conduct?
[15:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:25] <exec> 08└─> the arena of Platonic Ideas I believe you are getting things confused with a cave.
[15:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506961/Maryland-man-says-vaccinated-against-Covid-19.html [dailymail.co.uk]
[15:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:08] <exec> 08└─Also, MXLinux, I'm currently using that on my resurrected Laptop/Tablet that a friend gave me. It's "ancient", but it was able to fill some gaps when my wife's computer died. (Not actually ancient. I have at least one functional IBM Thinkpad A21m, now that's ancient. It's also the only device I have...
[15:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:09] <exec> 08└─Flip the coin, you're probably just as bad off either way, but if you're going to be using Zoom anyway. You might as well use their app as opposed to introducing a proven bad actor. Since, Google is syphoning every shred of data they can.
[15:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:12] <exec> 08└─> Too many fucking forks! That also applies to the Dining Philosophers problem. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:14] <exec> 08└─People who want systemd should be committed to an asylum for their own safety. FTFY
[15:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:01] <exec> 08└─It would have been cheaper to just hire BLM. Wait....?
[15:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:02] <exec> 08└─As do Alaskan, northern-most Canada, Greenland https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[16:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─WTF does a stroke have to do with severe head trauma? Are they trying to suggest that he suffered a stroke, which caused him to slip and fall?
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─I expect falling 7 stories is certainly a way to burst any clots you have in your head. Thus: stroke.
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─Seoul is in China - wow
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─This just in... "Witnesses observing him fall said it was horrible, they described the sound as 'sheng', 'chang', and a final 'chiang' followed by a loud thud confirming his ultimate demise."
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─Whenever I get a Windows MSI file, I often want to jump off a building.
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─China has no soul.
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─Investigation continues... "Police have surmised that a 'Mis-Step Involved', or MSI (police lingo for 'oops') may have resulted in Chiang slipping from the rooftop."
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jnsn [5376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─Was the MSI from a 3rd party, or solely Chuck's doing?
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─Wild guess: use it against ourselves but try to make it look like it was them?
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:10] <exec> 08└─Clarification: use it against ourselves but try to make it look like the enemy did it.
[16:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:12] <exec> 08└─The year 2109 is less than a hundred years from now.
[16:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:14] <exec> 08└─Well they are certainly subject to mass psychogenic illnesses.
[16:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe because they party, drink and consume drugs together when on a foreign posting?
[16:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:32] <exec> 08└─Previous Coverage Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named [soylentnews.org]
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:15] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you don't appreciate what indemnification does. It gets you out of (almost) all responsibility. Tesla doesn't have to take responsibility for, or enforce anything. And nobody would want them to. Of course, if a sensor is so badly damaged that the software cannot operate safely, then the auto...
[16:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─The question is what broader goal this serves. We have HOV lanes because governments want to encourage higher vehicle occupancy for more efficient road use. They don't really work, and they aren't as good as more public transit, but that's the goal. Self-driving only lanes, if they're separated phys...
[16:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─Whoever is in control has liability. If the car is driving and you don't interfere in its decisions - it's liable. If the car is driving and you override it - you're liable. If you're driving - you're liable. I can't be liable for something that I cannot affect, or couldn't reasonably be construed t...
[16:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:20] <exec> 08└─True. But I suspect self driving cars will happen prior to teleportation.
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─I have never heard it expressed that way. In fact, the Pareto principle (usually referring to the 80:20 rule rather than the 90:10 rule often used in software development) is often applied to distributions as well - e.g. 20% of the population owns 80% of the wealth. Not the smartass *other* 80%. 80%...
[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah but this all begs the question: who will insure self-driving cars? Eventually everyone will if they prove safer than humans. But until we have years of solid accident statistics, I'm not sure how the insurance will work. Maybe Tesla will have to insure its cars and drivers?
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─I don't know if you've ever listened to "Car Talk" but Ray used to refer to the "third half of our show".
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─1) "autopilot" was severely flawed; it's still quite flawed but they keep marketing it as if it were more capable than it is; especially the misleading name of it. Obviously, Musk's definition is different than most of ours; why wouldn't he define "full autonomy" like he does "autopilot"? 2) Liabili...
[16:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:59] <exec> 08└─You're considering short term trends in a language. Phrases like "that's sick" become pretty cringe worthy within a single lifetime and die shortly thereafter. They're just not radical enough, dooood. While surfing the web I found this [litcharts.com] bodacious list of *some* of the words Shakespear...
[16:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:00] <exec> 08└─Idioms are a problem in language translation. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= First example. I'm going to use a story from Judges 3:12-30. [biblegateway.com] In a nutshell: (in my own words) Eglon - foreign king to which tribute must be paid Ehud - story hero to saves people from paying trib...
[16:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:03] <exec> 08└─Yip. I'd emphasize that we all share a common ancestor. Not "we" as in all humans share a common ancestor - but literally everything living on this planet. You are related to.. grass. A cat is about 90% genetically similar to a human, chimps around 96%. And we went from wolves to chihuahua's in what...
[16:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:05] <exec> 08└─I get to hotel. I notice there are only 3 coat hangars in closet. Tired and frustrated (my language changes) I call the front desk. "I'm calling to complain that there are 3 hookers in my closet!" "What?!?" "I have more clothes than can fit on 3 hookers." "Sir, I don't understand . . ." "You heard m...
[16:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:07] <exec> 08└─This is a bridge too far! Now they expect us to lose our own language? Phoenix, what can we do??
[16:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Missions to Mars Happening this Month - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:16] <exec> 08└─Since the launch window for a Mars trip is well known and predictable; if Perseverance misses the launch window it will be due to inadequate planning for minor problem delays. Such as due to a crane. OTOH, rushing the development of a high tech robot is one of several ways to cause mission failure o...
[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:34] <exec> 08└─Welcome to hell. There is some good news, and some bad news. First the good news. You can get Usenet in hell! The bad news is that there is only one news group: comp.news.sci.red.soc.talk.misc.
[16:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─A recurring theme, even here on SN from time to time, are articles about how the old can extend their lives by taking something from the young. No thanks. When my time is up, I'm ready to go. Good luck to the young. Sorry the previous several generations made such a mess of things.
[16:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:47] <exec> 08└─Real Ubuntu uses transvestites.
[16:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:49] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu without snaps - you have a choice of buttons, or a zipper. You may have chrome buttons, a chrome zipper, or just chrome plate the whole thing - your preference.
[16:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:51] <exec> 08└─The huge heads are a result of the systemd mutation. Just so you know.
[16:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:54] <exec> 08└─It depends on which syllable is emphasized most. When all three are emphasized at the same time, it means "I don't know a damned thing and I want someone to hold my hand and do it for me!" In which case, the user could have stayed with Apple or Microsoft, but chose to do some virtue signaling instea...
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[17:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─A necessary evil.
[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:17] <exec> 08└─Neither the post from Google nor the Phoronix article is clear about what exactly this organization does. But it's from Google, so assume it's evil until proven otherwise.
[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:20] <exec> 08└─What ever it is, if enough people like it and get into using it some google script kiddie will decide to screw it up. Just like they've done with G Maps and Gmail.
[17:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:22] <exec> 08└─Here is a company that tracks its users to make money...Most probably it knows more about you than your life partner. Sure it is giving back to open source ...well may be ...or is it a way to get back into the business of trying to moneytize open source that they gave up on and that github and gitla...
[17:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─The mayor was accused of sexual misconduct and pretty obviously committed suicide. The mayor was supposedly a pro feminist, champion of women's rights, who very likely said one thing and acted in quite a different manner. The MSI CEO, who knows, but I wouldn't rule out anything at this point.
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─Highly unlikely, but a rather crude question.
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─But does it have funk?
[17:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:13] <exec> 08└─That was back when the story was that Cubans were bad and would steal your freedumbs. Now the bad guys are Russian. Or Chinese. Or Iranian. I can't keep up.
[17:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 4451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:15] <exec> 08└─> why a new boss every couple weeks? That is, of course, a huge sign that the office was extremely dysfunctional. Under the current administration, dysfunction is the norm. I've been in an extremely stressful office environment. I know what it's like: Horrible. I lost a lot of weight from all the st...
[17:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─Rounded dome designs are more impervious to hurricanes, tornadoes, and nuclear explosion shockwaves, all of which will become more common in daily life. You can put the rectangular rooms in the underground floors.
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─I didn't listen, but my wife did, long ago. So I heard some of it.
[17:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:23] <exec> 08└─"True AI" is a myth. How do you create a machine that is capable of making it's own decisions? How do you prove it? Given that it were to seem like it was making it's own decisions. It would be functioning in the way it's designers, created it to, it couldn't function any other way.
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2018/02/28/driverless-cars-90-percent-done-90-percent-left-to-go/#54288ca520a0 [forbes.com] I've heard it before, not exactly sure how far back it goes, but it's a reasonably popular expression.
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:27] <exec> 08└─They don't really work, and they aren't as good as more public transit, but that's the goal.
[17:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:29] <exec> 08└─There's no need to make yo momma jokes so complicated. Just look at this post.
[17:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think any large number of humans will ever live on Mars. Everyone will just live in space habitats. They're just better in every possible way. Earth is a nice planet to live on and so most people don't conceive of living anywhere but on planets, but except for Earth, planets are terrible pla...
[17:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:06] <exec> 08└─One of my dates in SoCal was a southern bell. One day at 7/11 the teen cashier asked her if she wanted a bag. She said she needed a poke.
[17:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:08] <exec> 08└─:-) What, are you that weak? You gotta keep your blinders on!
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Missions to Mars Happening this Month - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─Well, at least they aren't calling it the "Mars 2020 rover".
[17:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:39] <exec> 08└─A recurring theme, even here on SN from time to time, are articles about how the old can extend their lives by taking something from the young. No thanks.
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe there's still time to become a part time mummy!
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[18:22:31] <exec> 08└─It looks to me like it's a mechanism for Google to control trademarks of successful open source projects, because the suits and lawyers think the value of, say, Nginx is the word "Nginx" and the logo they created for it.
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─Well, the Chinese I had last night sure smelled funky...
[18:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─I see that Good old 'Dr Kaufman' [imdb.com] has been busy again, of late... So many 'celebrity' suicides and 'tragic accidents', so many secrets kept...
[18:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─So many conspiracy theories, so little time...
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─The cause is the secret weapon used by the lizard people.
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─You took a job in the The Trump Organization? Or where you actually working in the Trump White House? No wonder you were nervous and lost weight.
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─People just got all verklempt over Trump Same thing goes for this "pandemic". It's all mass hysteria
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:34] <exec> 08└─We're actually quite predictable on average.
[18:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:45] <exec> 08└─Yes 100% depends on the defition of 100%. Like there will never be 100% safe vehicle. But if 100% level 5 autonomous vehicle is that it can operate in sun and blizzard, safer than 95% of humans, then that's likely achievable with good enough sensors. I personally do not count driving with GPS and pr...
[18:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:23] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they'll get used to it after the 2nd or 3rd time they try to request consent to speak to others.
[18:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:09] <exec> 08└─I miss the old days when the groupthink was dynamic linking made your apps better and more secure
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[19:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:16] <exec> 08└─Who gives a crap about 5G? It's stupid. It requires more energy, has a shorter range, is more easily blocked by obstacles, and doesn't offer anything meaningful in the way of performance. I'm not going to be using my phone to download 1GB files. I'm not going to be using my phone to streak 4k/8k vid...
[19:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TomTheFighter [9781] (Score: 1) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:18] <exec> 08└─HA HA HA H AH HA HA OMG !!!!! WHO CARES !!!! YA HIT "SUBMIT" FIRST !
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/google-says-trademarks-should-be-open-source-too-ibm-disagrees/ [arstechnica.com] This Wednesday, Google announced a new open source initiative—the Open Usage Commons, a sort of stewardship project for open source trademarks. The move drew imm...
[19:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─This, sadly, was my first thought.
[19:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:01] <exec> 08└─Park Won-soon's daughter reportedly told police he had left a message before leaving the house, leading her to raise the alarm. His body was found at Mount Bugak in northern Seoul, near where his phone signal was last detected. No cause of death has been officially recorded. But police said they wer...
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[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─However, I think this mystery is far from solved. For example: Why were diplomats & embassy staff, predominantly from the US and Canada, affected?, Why not other American citizens? Why only between the years 2016 and 2109?
[19:23:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─When in reality the trucks were filled with Gringo repellent.
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:34] <exec> 08└─Probably somewhere higher up the chain, they had a whole barrel of bad apples that they couldn't quite document enough demerits on to terminate or shunt to a basement office somewhere so they cycled them through an active post that was disrupted anyway so they could fail in a documented way.
[19:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:35] <exec> 08└─aww da po baybee got downmudded awwww po baybee boooooo
[19:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Samantha Wright [4062] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:38] <exec> 08└─In 2017, 2018, and 2019 sociologist Robert Bartholomew[52][53][54] and some neurologists wrote that the attacks represent episodes of mass psychogenic illness.[15][55][56][57][49] However, the co-lead author of the 2019 study published in JAMA, Ragini Verma of the University of Pennsylvania Perlman...
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─1961 called, they want Valentine Michael Smith returned to Mars, ASAP.
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─I like how they claim round is good for building them quickly, and then mention they'll be made out of plants grown on site. So how long do we have to sit around growing plants before we can build a shelter? As a nitpick: aren't all modern plastics plant-based? A million year long prior conversion t...
[19:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:59] <exec> 08└─Batteries are definitely off the table for Mars until it gets local production - they're too heavy to transport in useful amounts. Waste processing could yield gases that may be useful as fuel, or they could be refined biofuels from algae, or maybe a GMO yeast or fungus.
[19:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe we could finally stop the horrible exploitative business of insurance?
[19:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:56] <exec> 08└─Given how few republicans seem to care about the number of people killed by Covid, I think you are exaggerating things.
[19:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:37] <exec> 08└─Since you said you wanted more hookers [wikipedia.org] in your room, did they send the plumber to fix the room flooding? :-)
[19:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe once in a coons age, but I speak strait as an arrow from now till the cows come home!
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:40] <exec> 08└─From the polyglot version [sacred-texts.com] of Judges 3, it seems that it is a Biblical Hebrew euphemism for defecation that the KJV wrongfully rendered literally. The Tanakh uses the word 'raglav' (רַגְלָ֖יו) which literally means 'his feet' but in context is euphemistic for bodily excret...
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─Second the motion. Literacy solidifies words but doesn't solidify pronunciation; transmission and recordings do.
[19:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liquid Crystal Integrated Metalens for Versatile Color Focus - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:45] <exec> 08└─Hopefully the personal spectroscope will end up in some households eventually. The hurdle is making it Not detect the Chinese nano thingies that are going to bring the technofascism around.
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[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that 5G also spreads COVID. Not the transmitter near my place, though -- the installer at the time said the one she was putting in had been electronically vaccinated against it; however, they couldn't use that vaccine on people because it causes electro-autism in humans and pet ferrets....
[20:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TomTheFighter [9781] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:41] <exec> 08└─Flamebait ?! I was serious ! He really did hit "SUBMIT" first ! *OMG* FUNNY !!!!!!
[20:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TomTheFighter [9781] (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─Troll ?! Jeeze - just trying to inject a little levity .... Ok Ok Ok I'll go away.
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:56] <exec> 08└─Heh, from that article... It's easy to understand why an open source project would want to protect its trademarks, though. If you don't protect your trademark, there's nothing stopping—for example—Oracle from deciding to create an entirely different product called "Firefox," leading to severe co...
[20:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:58] <exec> 08└─Mozilla originally decided to call their new stripped-down browser "Firebird"
[20:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:00] <exec> 08└─meet the new evil, same as the old evil.
[20:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─But it's from Google, so assume it's evil until proven otherwise.
[20:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:06] <exec> 08└─No, this was working for the government during the George W. Bush administration, which was nearly as bad. I was a defense contractor. The military boys put on a real gung-ho, tough guy act. Pushed us hard to do the impossible. They wanted unbreakable computer security, for themselves only. They wan...
[20:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:27] <exec> 08└─Not sure I can accept your arguments, but though they're on topic, they don't really address my question. That said, I can see rounded external walls as a pressure containment mechanism. But I don't see the problem with getting an extrusion mechanism to print rectangular walls. Even the first large...
[20:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:09] <exec> 08└─Thanks. That answers a long standing question I had about whether this was a "1611 English" or an "ancient Hebrew" idiom. I knew that if it were an ancient Hebrew idiom, it would therefore be a mistake for the King James translators to translate it literally instead of something that captures the me...
[20:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:45] <exec> 08└─But, face it, China was conquered by force of arms, and a more efficient bureaucracy than China itself had.
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[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─Turns out Nancy Reagan was right after all - drugs are bad for you.
[21:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─We gettin' turnt tonight.
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:32] <exec> 08└─You needed Nancy to tell you that?
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─So what is the goal here? To create non-addictive cocaine or?
[21:22:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EJ [2452] 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─Who gives a crap about 5G? It's stupid. It requires more energy, has a shorter range, is more easily blocked by obstacles, and doesn't offer anything meaningful in the way of performance. I'm not going to be using my phone to download 1GB files. I'm not going to be using my phone to streak 4k/8k vid...
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:49] <exec> 08└─They run speedtest.net https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─The atmosphere here is generally serious to angry. There are many exceptions though. Keep fighting! :)
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─Around here, 5G spreads graffiti, mostly about saving children. To be honest, though, I haven't looked into the wireless protocols supported by the two cell towers in question, but the towers seem to be related to nearby painted slogans.
[21:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:56] <exec> 08└─Here in the UK, 5G spreads Marmite YMMV
[21:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:58] <exec> 08└─Rumor is that if you invert the antennas it will kill COVID.
[21:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:00] <exec> 08└─That sad attempt to dunk on EJ ignores the actual substance of the comment. Keep being stupid.
[21:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:02] <exec> 08└─My grandmother was baking some cookies when her Ookla ookled. She ignored it, and next thing you know her cookies were cookled.
[21:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:20] <exec> 08└─And so quickly you forget Debian's "IceWeasel", kinda a counter-pun play on foxes on Fire. First the evil branding of Open Sores, and now the business "good will" of Open Umbrage. This will not end well.
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─Dumb question. Since when do c-level actually have anything to do with product shipment.
[21:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:50] <exec> 08└─I'm only thinking about the Mars habitat case. The first ones are going to have to be very sparse. I don't expect multiple couch pieces. Just something practical to sit on. On Earth I think round homes are probably a bad idea, generally. Rectangular rooms seem to solve a lot of problems. If other sh...
[21:25:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:18] <exec> 08└─IMO: because of the sheer amount of wasted human productivity spent on driving automobiles that could be used for better things. The motive to develop full self driving is very high.
[21:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─Okay, so the 90-90 saying does exist. Still makes no logical sense (even if the meaning is clear), and I strongly suspect it's a bastardization of the 90/10 rule*, which itself is a more extreme version of the 80/20 rule, aka the Pareto Principle, which was coined in 1876. *a dramatically weaker bas...
[21:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:50] <exec> 08└─The Autopilot system is aptly named, as it can do as much or better than an aircraft's autopilot. The fact that people misunderstand what an autopilot can actually do shouldn't be Tesla's problem. Please note that I don't actually disagree with you, as I realize the ease in which people misunderstan...
[21:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:35] <exec> 08└─Icelanders today can read the sagas in the original because their contemporary language is still that close to Old Norse.
[21:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:36] <exec> 08└─Dis isn't a vernacular, dis is a Doiby"
[21:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:38] <exec> 08└─I believe he would correctly surmise that those words mean nothing and are perhaps the result of some sort of disease of the mind or a stroke in progress.
[21:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:41] <exec> 08└─Martian explorer 1: "Musk, musk, musk?" Martian explorer 2: "Musky mook muck musk" Martian explorer 1: "Musk musky musk."
[21:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Missions to Mars Happening this Month - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:52] <exec> 08└─Turn in your geek badge https://techcrunch.com [techcrunch.com]
[21:27:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:20] <exec> 08└─You can see pretty pictures here https://apod.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] and here: https://apod.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] Enjoy.
[21:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:39] <exec> 08└─Hayukatake and Hale-Bopp came very close in time to each other. They were both awesome sights easily seen by eye. I grew up in the 70s in anticipation of Halley, which was a great dud, then 10 years later these two comets made the wait worth it.
[21:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03organgtool [6385] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:29] <exec> 08└─I know this is a joke but since this is a story about Snap and Docker and I see so many comparisons of the two, I think it's worth pointing out a distinction: one of the main advantages of a Docker image is being able to execute multiple instances of a container based on a single image without the n...
[21:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:20] <exec> 08└─Same from Turkey. Almost like SN was a xenophobic American blog.
[21:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:22] <exec> 08└─CCP territorial ambitions know no bounds. Pretty weak compared to Great Britain and the zionists. Let's just divert some Afghan opium their way and soften them up a bit.
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[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/chrome/ [google.com]
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─It's cocaine. You spelled it right.
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─My doctor prescribes drugs that are good for me. But that's not what you meant, was it?
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─Given the viruses and permanent marauds, clients are not expected to be in the cities any time soon if ever. High population density is gone from our lives; able to spend population at least. Ghettos don't need 5G.
[22:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─Fiber is where "it's at." The problem is that fiber is not where "I'm at." 4G and the cable monopoly are the only options here. 4G is already cheaper but slower and capped. I'm sure it'll be a while before 5G gets here, but by then the cable monopoly will probably have raised prices another 70%, so...
[22:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─I haven't analyzed it but Google is so evil that it's safe to assume this is evil. Probably like AMP.
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─Is their any aspect of our lives that will not be owned by a corporation?
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─I hope you meant ultrasonic. Hypersonic implies exploding Russian nuclear powered missiles Anyway, I think these people just tried to commit suicide by sticking their heads in the microwave
[22:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strength and Immune System Improved in Old Mice Using Transfer of Immune Cells - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:16] <exec> 08└─Many years ago, a Young Conservative told me the following joke. A man dies suddenly and finds himself in Hell. He is distraught. While he is moping, another man sidles up to him. "What's the matter?" he enquires sympathetically? "I've... gone to the wrong place," comes the snivelling reply. "Oh, it...
[22:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:27] <exec> 08└─Did you actually mean to say anything here? Yes, the Chinese invented gunpowder - that's ancient history. The Chinese invented bureaucracy - again, ancient history. Only tiny parts of China were made subservient to the western powers, you say? That's interesting. How about you look up that "most fav...
[22:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IT Pros Indicted after Arranging Credit Card Payments for Weed Startup - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:55] <exec> 08└─I should be allowed to sell highly addictive drugs. You know the ones that decimate families, communities, and entire neighborhoods. The drugs that kill people. Because it is obviously moral and correct and it is my choice. Thanks.
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[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:29] <exec> 08└─Pure science doesn't need a goal, the knowledge gained is it's intrinsic justification.
[23:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:30] <exec> 08└─But they aren't good for you. God gave you that disease for a reason, so taking drugs goes against His will. These drugs aren't just damaging your liver - they are compromising your eternal salvation.
[23:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:33] <exec> 08└─You know the drill, GP is one of those internet tough guys who don't even take ibuprofen for headaches. His Randian virtue will keep him in perfect health until he ascends to heaven like Enoch or Elijah, before Man Jeebus retconned them that is.
[23:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Catalyst [7542] (Score: 1) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:54] <exec> 08└─To be fair, 5G has nothing to do with frequencies... They can blast it at 600mhz and has range and passes through walls just fine. The higher frequency signals are more localized for sure and offer the higher speeds. But yeah, I'm with you on the wires/fiber is better part.
[23:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:48] <exec> 08└─Erh... yeah. Food. Of course.
[23:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 2938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:35] <exec> 08└─I don't think TFA has it right. Using ancient earth colonization as a model doesn't work, diasporas didn't keep in touch much back then because messages required physical travel to transfer, with travel times of weeks to years - comms bandwidth and latency and expense was simply woefully inadequate...
[23:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:37] <exec> 08└─Or they could, like, take a box full of DVDs.
[23:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:28] <exec> 08└─I remember when Linux folks used to mention DLL hell and feel superior.
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