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[00:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:06] <exec> 08└─Sane people call it "sound". But then again, this is a woman whose parents named her Bunnie.
[00:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:24] <exec> 08└─You're right, but nothing touched by a human mind can really be pure. They probably had some goal, like gaining a deeper understanding of the physiological effects of cocaine addiction.
[00:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:25] <exec> 08└─So I can either take the drugs and live or spend eternity with the asshole that gave me the disease. Decisions, decisions...
[00:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:28] <exec> 08└─What? Pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake, to learn and grow? Where's the profit in that, you commie?
[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─That's what they said about Einstein's work on nuclear physics, before they discovered it was also useful for vaporizing Japs.
[00:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─Yep. Just the slight improvements to the modulation algorithm should make 5g better than 4g at the same frequency. Wireless communications is a field where the theory is very mature and manufacturing ability is the limiting factor, so the steady incremental improvements are all relatively underwhelm...
[00:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─You should be ashamed that the ghettos exist, rather than judging the people in them. Your "let them eat cake" attitude is disgusting.
[00:23:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:02] <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.
[00:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:48] <exec> 08└─You sure you don't want to jump through the nearest Window?
[00:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:50] <exec> 08└─Man. I have a bad feeling that something really sad happened to this guy.
[00:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:52] <exec> 08└─Don't want to, ah, jump to any conclusions on this. I find it strange that someone who made it big in life would suicide. And yet, many East Asian cultures do have a tradition of suicide, to expiate the shame of a huge failure or crime, or as a tactic of desperation. There's the Japanese banzai atta...
[00:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 1918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─Yea, I worked at a job that had over a 300% average annual employee turnover rate. CEO was a crook and because he was a crook, he assumed all of his employees were crooks out to get him. I was young and stupid and wasn't aware they were running a racket at first. When the FTC showed up, I had all th...
[00:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:54] <exec> 08└─You still see the furniture as been squares or boxes. I guess a lot of furniture would be fairly simple, just make them at the same angles as the walls, I'm sure there will be some standards. It should work fine really. There might be some deadspace in the bends and corners but over all it will be f...
[00:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:54] <exec> 08└─To do this, you have to replace every vehicle, not just cars as they have a lot of bikes, rickshaws, and other vehicles that people in the US may consider odd. Who's going to pay for all of that? You can't expect someone with a salary equivalent to a few dollars a day (migrant workers get shafted) t...
[00:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:45] <exec> 08└─My favorite is the African-American "dropping the kids off at the pool".
[00:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:45] <exec> 08└─The point of Plato's cave is the crawling out of it, into the true light of celestial bodies? Like this. [duckduckgo.com] But also this attitude is found in Boethius' De philosophiae consolatione, [wikisource.org] O stelliferi conditor orbis, Qui perpetuo nixus solio Rapido caelum turbine uersas L...
[00:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:38] <exec> 08└─Distros that make packaging easy tend to have many packages. Arch is a good example - the PKGBUILD file is just a shell script that sets a few variables and supplies the build and package functions (CRUX has even simpler Pkgfiles, but no dependency management). BSDs have fewer packages and a higher...
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[01:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:18] <exec> 08└─Bunnie Huang is a guy, an MIT prodigy best known for cracking the original Xbox's security via 'glitching', which lead to the next two generations of modchips targetting the Original Xbox and the 360. He then went on to create the Chumby, then the Novena 'open hardware' laptop and since then has bee...
[01:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:19] <exec> 08└─Even more, "bunnie" (with 'b' in lower case!) is his hacker nickname [wikipedia.org] Andrew Huang Born 1975 (age 44–45) Kalamazoo, Michigan Nationality American Other names bunnie Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology Occupation Hacker, author, researcher Known for...
[01:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:21] <exec> 08└─So basically someone who creates products that add no value to society and quickly end up in landfills. First against the wall when the revolution comes.
[01:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:23] <exec> 08└─Sane people call it "sound".
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Complex Gene Program Initiates Brain Changes in Response to Cocaine - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─No! [frontpagemag.com]
[01:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:11] <exec> 08└─It also allows finer grained tracking due to higher density of towers.
[01:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:12] <exec> 08└─Just because you're short sighted doesn't mean anyone else is.
[01:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Fuck the white man. #BLM
[01:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:16] <exec> 08└─I'm astonished some authority thinks there are "5,164 cities across the US". That averages to over 100 for each of the 50 states. Yet Wikipedia lists less than 400 localities with more than 100,000 people. City, schmitty. In my variety of English, we'd call them towns.
[01:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:19] <exec> 08└─Are all Trump trolls so dumb?
[01:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:53] <exec> 08└─I feel for you. I get a strong idea what happened. Engineers deal in controlling THINGS and maximizing bang for the buck. MBA deal in controlling PEOPLE. Some treat US just like we treat things. So what if I monkeyed up a screw? I simply replace it. MBA are paid enough they don't have to rely on kin...
[01:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:55] <exec> 08└─"What is the most effective method of using it against our adversaries?" Hide the emitter in Congressional podiums.
[01:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:57] <exec> 08└─Good question... My impotent governor says I am supposed to visit my doctor over the phone. Yet mandates I show up in person at the DMV to renew my driver license... Despite the fact I have not infracted as much as a parking ticket. We are killing all these businesses by depriving them of human cont...
[01:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:59] <exec> 08└─"Anyway, I think these people just tried to commit suicide by sticking their heads in the microwave" It's not that easy. I think all of the " clean" ways of doing this are no longer available, like secobarbitol. Determined people still do it, but it's messy... But then it also gives them one last ch...
[01:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:25] <exec> 08└─I hear you. I think the principle of insurance is good, but like you said it's been far too exploited and has incrementally been turned into an inherently corrupt system. Even the courts generally uphold it, and why shouldn't they- lots of their income comes from liability lawsuits; jobs and industr...
[01:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:26] <exec> 08└─No need to challenge me- I agree with you. My lack of including all of that does not mean I didn't think it- I just didn't write a novel explaining everything, including a timeline. I was just briefly posing what the future scenario could possibly be like. It would take a long time to adopt / integr...
[01:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:28] <exec> 08└─Then you get the people who put mannequins in their car and use the HOV lanes.
[01:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Missions to Mars Happening this Month - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:30] <exec> 08└─That's part of Mars 2020/Perseverance. It detaches from the rover. Dragonfly [wikipedia.org] will be much cooler, if we live to see it.
[01:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:13] <exec> 08└─That's hardly ancient. I've got one of those kicking about too, though I haven't booted it in some time. It can boot from CD, has USB ports, and has built in networking. Ancient has none of those things. I'd venture it'd probably run a current Linux distro like Slackware, though perhaps a bit sluggi...
[01:32:08] <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 - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, forced, but the Shanghai Concession [wikipedia.org] was a mere 8.72 sq mi. and the French Concession [wikipedia.org] was 66 hectares (986 mu). How big is China, again, you ignoramous? Population? China was never Colonized. Even the Japanese only took Manchuria. So get your history straight, an...
[01:32:10] <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 - 1917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:10] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concessions_in_China#List_of_concessions [wikipedia.org] There is a more complete list of concessions. Now, how about the conditions of those concessions? Maybe you'll tell us about how things actually worked with a concession - and at the same time explain why no weste...
[01:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 0615 Billion Credentials Currently Up for Grabs on Hacker Forums - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:49] <exec> 08└─Of course, just because you aren't online doesn't mean your bank isn't. And it's website is probably full of SQLi, CRSF, long forgotten servers exposed to the Interwebs, etc. Just make sure you use a good password manager and have unique passwords: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
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[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─If you make an unauthorized repair to a medical device and someone dies, do you have liability insurance which insurance companies are willing to sell to random people off the street who repair medical devices?
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:35] <exec> 08└─On one side, a properly repaired ventilator will save lives just as a new one. On the other side, an improperly repaired one can kill by malfunctioning. I understand that there is an ongoing debate on the "right to repair". However, many manufacturers increasingly find ways to ensure that "unauthori...
[02:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:37] <exec> 08└─If you make an unauthorized repair to a medical device and someone dies, do you have liability insurance which insurance companies are willing to sell to random people off the street who repair medical devices?
[02:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:39] <exec> 08└─Freedom is your savior, and RMS is the last prophet. Those who rag on RMS, are doomed to repeat the fuck-up. Fuck-up, you do, that be thy name, cuz, like, yous are fucking morans.
[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─the problem of a botched repair that causes death is valid. Sure is. The manufacturers have to at least make the effort to lock them down for liability reasons.
[02:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah data caps would prevent me weening off wired broadband in favour of 5G tethering. But if the stakes are raised to the point that 50GB/month/handset is as a bare minimum seen as a basic universal human right on the cheapest plan then yeah. c.f. our household wired broadband was previously capped...
[02:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:46] <exec> 08└─That's an infrastructure problem. All the money wasted on 5G should be put into expanding fiber access.
[02:24:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 839 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:37] <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...
[02:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:44] <exec> 08└─I find it strange that someone who made it big in life would suicide.
[02:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:27] <exec> 08└─Yet mandates I show up in person at the DMV to renew my driver license
[02:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:55] <exec> 08└─An autopilot is colloquially understood to be a system that can safely maintain a vehicle's movement path in the environment that the vehicle tends to normally be in. Airplanes do not have to deal with pedestrians or parked police cars, and do just fine. Land-based vehicles have a higher standard in...
[02:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:48] <exec> 08└─Really? Let's talk about the Federalist Papers and Supreme Court interpretations. Let's talk about the phrase "well-regulated militia." I would say there are some serious practical problems that are perhaps only getting worse over time.
[02:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:50] <exec> 08└─I don't believe you. The Book of Revelations was written by someone with mental health problems. Or a drug problem.
[02:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:14] <exec> 08└─That seems weird too. Its almost like you don't have any say in the matter.
[02:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:46] <exec> 08└─"Or hell, just make a tarball" - Welcome to Slackware! This is how we do it.
[02:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Removed from Mint - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:48] <exec> 08└─Slackware DOES have a package manager... It WILL tell you what updates are available. There are also multiple 3rd party Slackware package managers.
[02:32:45] <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 - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:45] <exec> 08└─Silly American! Do you not know the concessions were the result of the Opium Wars? Brits selling their "product" from their "colony" of Afghanistan? And do you not know that the condition for the return of the French Concession was the removal of Chinese troops from the north of French Indochina, w...
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[03:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:22] <exec> 08└─ongoing debate on the "right to repair"
[03:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:23] <exec> 08└─The manufacturers have to at least make the effort to lock them down for liability reasons.
[03:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:26] <exec> 08└─The government has power of eminent domain over patents. I guess we have to make more noise than the lobbyists to get them to use it.
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 1698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─It is easy to come up with scenarios to support any argument you want. Per Google, an average sized hospital has 20 ventilators. If two of them are broken, and patient 19 needs a ventilator to survive, and cannot be transferred in time to another facility-- that patient dies. If the two ventilators...
[03:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─I think when when politicians bellies be full o'th Redrum they cause, it might be enough to give even them pause. But twill they sing another tune? How would I know, simply the court loon...
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─ongoing debate on the "right to repair"
[03:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─I understand that there is an ongoing debate on the "right to repair".
[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─The government has power of eminent domain over patents.
[03:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:39] <exec> 08└─Those who defend RMS, are doomed to be shunned as outcasts and pedos. Can I interest you in some toe jam?
[03:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─Jimmy Carter ended up backing both sides of that regime while president, and his brother who at the time had become an 'influencer' in DC chose to work with the Iranians until he was discovered and labelled a Foreign Agent barring him from those circles for life. As it turned out, the side they chos...
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:43] <exec> 08└─So, yeah, there's a real problem when you take a design controlled ventilator that has been through "best practices" processes from concept through production and maintenance and then hack a quick fix onto it. Not saying that these 840 ventilators don't have the potential to save lives, they do, and...
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:45] <exec> 08└─Someone modded parent post as "off topic". I don't believe it is off topic at all. There is a health crisis, common to all of mankind, wherever he or she may live. We should all care about each other's survival, right? Many here have taken me to task for refusing to wear a face mask. We care about e...
[03:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:50] <exec> 08└─The glory of capitalism is that corporations will favour profits over value to customers. Just don't repeat the Australian experience. Here the government owns the NBN rollout but it has been politicised. 100mbps is considered 'fast' and although I'm one of the 'lucky' and live in an area where are...
[03:24:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Opportunist [5545] 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:44] <exec> 08└─Erh... yeah. Food. Of course.
[03:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:50] <exec> 08└─Indeed... I like MSI products (and OMG have they improved from their early days). I'm sad that someone who did good work is gone.
[03:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:52] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a stroke of bad luck...
[03:25:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 4451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:18] <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...
[03:25:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 1388 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:26] <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...
[03:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:36] <exec> 08└─Woof, sounds like a worse nest of vipers than I was in. The managers I had to deal with were shameless liars and gross incompetents who couldn't tell gold from mud and didn't really care as long as whatever they had could be sold, but they didn't step over the line into outright criminal behavior, n...
[03:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:01] <exec> 08└─These are very sexy, but they shit all over the KISS principle. My wager is that the structures brought from Earth will look a lot more like dirt bermed concrete canvas shelters [concretecanvas.com] and a lot less like Eggman's secret base from Sonic the Hedgehog. I also don't see a strong argument...
[03:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:06] <exec> 08└─I'm certain that it was a very deliberate decision by Tesla to call their system "autopilot" knowing that people commonly misunderstand what an aircraft's autopilot does and hoping that people would then apply that misunderstanding to their cars. Meanwhile having a convenient out as what their syste...
[03:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:08] <exec> 08└─Not to mention all the cities that figure out by letting people drive solo in the HOV lanes for a fee, they suddenly have a nice new revenue source. Around here, the price scales depending on congestion, but is almost always cheaper than the express bus fare.
[03:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:27] <exec> 08└─> That seems weird too. Its almost like you don't have any say in the matter. Um, no disrespect meant from me, but is there some reason to believe we do have any say, in any matter?
[03:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:29] <exec> 08└─I am GP AC-- The insurance my work offers is considered "affordable" (not more than 9.something ~10% of income to premiums), so I am forbidden from purchasing from the exchanges. See sibling comment from a diff AC that explains some of the crazy BS in the US health insurance laws.
[03:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:00] <exec> 08└─Master of riding the waves of history without losing their cultural identity for millennia... I simply don't know other empires that managed this feat.
[03:33:01] <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 - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:01] <exec> 08└─I'll be perfectly honest with you: There is a helluva lot that I DO NOT know about China. But you keep making silly statements that are pure bullshit. China was divvied up and parceled out amongst various European powers, as well as Japan. You can make a very good argument that China retained far mo...
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[04:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:54] <exec> 08└─Not much - except Polacks must be pretty damned smart if we need them to do our hacking. Amirite?
[04:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:56] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but unfortunately it goes even further. The thing you own has a manufacturer's self-bricking algorithm in it. You try to repair it, and it's smart enough to know you did something and it wipes and bricks. Is that allowable? Hidden and secret- wasn't disclosed when you bought it.
[04:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:58] <exec> 08└─Ontopic: if there's truly a crisis, hackavator is better than no vent at all
[04:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:00] <exec> 08└─Seems simple to me: Manufacturer deprives me of the item I paid for - he owes me a new one. If a thief stole it from me, a court would say that the thief owes me restitution. If the manufacturer happens to be the thief, then the manufacturer owes restitution.
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:02] <exec> 08└─Not much - except Polacks must be pretty damned smart if we need them to do our hacking. Amirite?
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:04] <exec> 08└─hang a few shareholders
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed. Two other examples include: - intentionally limiting the life expectancy of the device by inserting a predictably weak part such as a plastic one with known disintegration time - locking down features in hope to sell them later Both are wasting the resources and as such killing the life...
[04:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:09] <exec> 08└─From my reading of it, 1. Thanks to sanctions, Iran has to mod/repair their hospital equipment to attempt to keep things going. 2. Staff used to Item X in fully operational condition might assume, especially under stress, that a modded/repaired Item X functions the same way.. 3. Even with doing this...
[04:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:11] <exec> 08└─Even more, a different company that makes it's living by providing repair and best practice use information should be protected from intellectual property claims once and for good. One should be able to share repair knowledge and make money from it.
[04:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:24] <exec> 08└─Somehow sounds don't seem to have spectral names the way colors do, so you can't call it indigo. But you could list a range of frequencies (specified by musical pitch for ready interpretation). I probably wouldn't be able to hear it, so to me it would probably be sound. That six year old over there...
[04:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:25] <exec> 08└─Agggh... change "so to me it would probably be sound." to "so to me it would probably be ultra-sonic sound."
[04:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:21] <exec> 08└─Wear the troll mod as a badge of honor. It means you said something that mattered enough to trigger the weak, simple, and intolerant.
[04:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:38] <exec> 08└─Ugh. I don't know if I'd ever heard of that. It's always about money. It reminds me of the traffic light cameras that send automatic tickets. If they really wanted to make intersections safer, they'd do like Russia and some other countries- they'd put a count-down counter up so you'd know when the l...
[04:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:39] <exec> 08└─Also for your safety, suppose the car knows the identify of every person in the vehicle. There would be no need for the police state to pull vehicles over in order to determine who is in the vehicle and whether they have any warrants. There would be no reason to pull over self driven vehicles, with...
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[05:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:26] <exec> 08└─But what about when they get older? Are they going to move out of the city as well, and then need a car? Seems like a possibility. Also 8% isn't particularly earth shattering.
[05:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:03] <exec> 08└─I have a strong disagreement with even the concept of protected trade secrets. The deal is you disclose it in a patent, you get 20 years of protection from competition and then the knowledge is free to everyone. If you think you can keep it secret, fine go for it, but you don't get the force of law...
[05:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:04] <exec> 08└─I have a strong disagreement with even the concept of protected trade secrets.
[05:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:06] <exec> 08└─Again, I agree, but if you recall, our courts have to uphold the laws that are written by our corporate-owned and lobbyist obeying congress. You and I only exist to keep them going.
[05:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:08] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's uncommon for medical devices to fail. They do fail, all the time, and then they get swapped out and the patient is fine. The key is to make sure they fail noisy. But in the current situation, is it really better for several patients to die for lack of equipment than for one to...
[05:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:11] <exec> 08└─As to the Poles...the ability to 'Frankenstein' equipment into a useable state was cultivated in a number of the old Soviet Bloc countries, thanks to equipment being run into the ground and lack of spares, similar to the current situation in Iran.
[05:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:19] <exec> 08└─Suicide rather than surrendering or due to losing face was very common before the rise of Christianity as well. There are many recorded Roman suicides of this nature, among others.
[05:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:29] <exec> 08└─Berming will be necessary for almost any structure on the surface. Radiation shielding doesn't get more cost-effective or simple than "pile dirt on top". Maintaining temperatures will also be far easier underground than on the surface.
[05:33:31] <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 - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:31] <exec> 08└─For those who don't know history, the real answer to your question is "when the next group of immigrants came." Throughout our history, the people who were already here banded together and rallied against the outsider "whites." The one thing I've found funny is that the "A-rabs" and Chinese have bec...
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[06:22:35] <exec> 08└─Are they going to move out of the city as well, and then need a car?
[06:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:36] <exec> 08└─OMG, they interviewed 40 people and extrapolated to a whole damn generation.
[06:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─In USA you typically don't have to move very far out of the city to need a car--the suburbs often lobby against extensions of the city rapid transit system (at least historically--slowly changing now). No worries about the quality of suburban coffee or conversation, it's all good, along with typical...
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:41] <exec> 08└─When they can afford to. Quite a few of them realize that you can get a lot more independence outside the city for a lot less than your monthly rent... *IF* *BIG IF* your job supports working remotely. For those of us whose jobs don't allow remote work, the benefits are much slimmer unless we alread...
[06:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:43] <exec> 08└─Be grateful - on some shows you just get the Talking Head telling you absolute Truth.
[06:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:45] <exec> 08└─Actually a lot of them ARE moving that way...
[06:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, Gosh, should have been: At the same time the manufacturers should make the absolute minimal effort to get them over liability reasons and no more than that
[06:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:28] <exec> 08└─The buyer has every "right" to do anything he wishes to do with the item as long as s/he takes the responsibility for their actions
[06:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:30] <exec> 08└─You and I only exist to keep them going.
[06:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:33] <exec> 08└─Better watch out- I can out-cynic you every day of the week! We're all controller by the Illuminati, rats running in our maze of mazes, on the wheels. Darn it, now I'm hungry for some cheese... I'll check in later... squeak squeak.
[06:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:35] <exec> 08└─Actually someone in my area got arrested for not wearing a mask. He got into some kind of dust-up with other store patrons who called the cops and the guy was charged with disorderly conduct and harassment. But you make a good point- why someone not infected should wear a mask? Well, in some people'...
[06:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:37] <exec> 08└─Better watch out- I can out-cynic you every day of the week!
[06:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:39] <exec> 08└─But you make a good point- why someone not infected should wear a mask?
[06:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:03] <exec> 08└─Oh heady days of my youth! Ubi est Quintus? I hear you cry. Quintus est in cubiculum I retort! Ubi est filia. Filia est in culinam! Sadly so very sexist.
[06:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:04] <exec> 08└─Полынь горькая is wormwood: https://ru.wikipedia.org
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[07:26:06] <exec> 08└─Dishonest people hate honest people because honest people not only keep the documents that would hang them out to dry but will cheerfully turn those documents over to law enforcement to ensure that hanging happens.
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[08:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unreal’s New iPhone App Does Live Motion Capture with Face ID Sensors - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:15] <exec> 08└─How is this different? https://learn.g2.com It looks like it's just an animoji in a game context rather than a messaging context. How is that advancing the field? Next innovation - embed it in the music playing app so that you san see yourself sing in 3D along with the music? I'm a geniuose,...
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[08:22:16] <exec> 08└─My understanding, so I may be totally wrong The difference is that the output of animoji is just an animated pile of poo (that maybe mimics your facial expression) while this one streams live motion capture data. I assume animating a pile of poo requires less samples for mimicking something good eno...
[08:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:30] <exec> 08└─Sometimes 8% can be significant: https://www.penissizes.org
[08:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:31] <exec> 08└─Nope. They interviewed 40 people, and then "To find out if these attitudes were truly representative, we surveyed 2,225 American adults of all ages" Article, motherfucker, did you read it?
[08:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:34] <exec> 08└─Imagine how bad it must be to be an average black guy. She's expecting so much more, it will look tiny. Conversely the average asian dude is probably constantly getting "Wow, it's bigger than I expected!" .
[08:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:36] <exec> 08└─Article, motherfucker, did you read it?
[08:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 2239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:38] <exec> 08└─The article is bullshit and mental masturbation. Sure there are some social changes, but the biggest driver by far is the complete lack of good jobs. Just gig economy and slave jobs where you cannot ever get ahead, and young people are already heavily burdened by going into great debt (not discharge...
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[08:23:26] <exec> 08└─Idiot mods who don't realize that they themselves may be shareholders in public companies (which they don't approve of) if they have funds in a pension fund [wikipedia.org]. May not even know that pension investment funds are very common [wikipedia.org], especially in countries that are not US. Hey,...
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[08:23:28] <exec> 08└─Risk aversion pushes people away from active decisions that result in improvements. Also c.f. the trolley problem, which is quite closely related - many think it's better/safer to cowardlily do nothing than do something that causes a lesser harm.
[08:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:30] <exec> 08└─You're right, and I'd like to add an environmental argument that's often overlooked. If repair is made impossible or too expensive, items become worthless and end up in a landfill prematurely.
[08:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:32] <exec> 08└─Medical field is a bit apart from your typical trolley. Blame those crates of hippos [wikipedia.org] for the ethical oath they need to follow (and/or be glad they don't break it while you are in their hands)
[08:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:46] <exec> 08└─The carrier frequency is 20.8333 kHz; this is above the threshold of hearing for most humans So it's ultrasound, but only just. Or near-ultrasound to use the preferred technical name. It's an easy terminology to adopt and adapt - for example, the OP is a near-untertroll.
[08:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:48] <exec> 08└─for example, the OP is a near-untertroll
[08:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Open Usage Commons - 3259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:04] <exec> 08└─It's heartening to see dozens of Soylentil comments about Google's evility with nary a useful observation in sight. Given all the complexities of society at large, having a safe bubble to retreat to is comforting. The problem that Google is trying to solve here quite obvious to me. Trademark ownersh...
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[09:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:16] <exec> 08└─The original sci article is free access. Unlike the phys.org FA, the sci one says (with my emphasis): It proves that the fast electrotonic signal transmission between neighboring plants is not caused by volatile organic compounds’ emission, mycorrhizal networks in the soil, the plants’ rhizosphe...
[09:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:17] <exec> 08└─Heyyy sugar look at those big flowers you got there! I bet you gon make some nice juicy bubble fruits out of these baby. How about we call the bee and make’em tomatoes happen?
[09:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:44] <exec> 08└─Steady on, a majority still voted for Scotty deplorable Morrison.
[09:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─He may have RSOTFA, but clearly didn't RAOTFA.
[09:22:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:58] <exec> 08└─ongoing debate on the "right to repair"
[09:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:38] <exec> 08└─There's a simple solution for this. Here's a form. You can sign it to agree that if you die from this machine being faulty, you won't sue. The alternative is that we don't hook you up to this machine and you die. You have the free choice.
[09:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:40] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly sure these ventilators won't be used instead but on top of the "high quality" ones they have. In other words, they will be used in cases where the alternative is not to hook the patient up to a "certified" ventilator but to hook him up to no ventilator and let him die. Look up "heroic mea...
[09:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:42] <exec> 08└─I hate the ones playing with my money. Or rather, playing with some money and expect me to bail them out when they lost in the casino. Screw them. Preferable with a donkey dildo.
[09:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:55] <exec> 08└─True, but there's always room for just one more (albeit) wafer thin one..
[09:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:16] <exec> 08└─Sure we can. Bottom right panel of https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
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[10:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:17] <exec> 08└─How about we call the bee and make’em tomatoes happen?
[10:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:46] <exec> 08└─a majority still voted for Scotty deplorable Morrison.
[10:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─If they didn't ask the whole study is meaningless. Using someone elses' cars puts wear on those and they will have to be replaced, so looks like no net change.
[10:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:44] <exec> 08└─I hate the ones playing with my money.
[10:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:45] <exec> 08└─to hook him up to no ventilator and let him die.
[10:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:47] <exec> 08└─So, I take it that you're against amputating gangrenous limbs?
[10:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:59] <exec> 08└─Who said it was US cities?
[10:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:24] <exec> 08└─I always thought it was having a go at over-optimistic estimators. 80% over original time and budget seems fairly usual.
[10:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:17] <exec> 08└─Further to sjames reply, I think it far more likely that Ben would aim the gun at the speaker rather than at himself.
[10:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:18] <exec> 08└─The speed of genetic drift is related to the size of the population. Any reasonable generational colony ship is going to include massive sperm and egg banks, which effectively increase the breeding population. I don't think the drift will be as fast as you say.
[10:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:21] <exec> 08└─English in those time periods is a different case. In late 11th century the invading norse nobility spoke a different language to the conquered saxon peasants. There was a lot of word migration and consolidation between the two.
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[11:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:19] <exec> 08└─You know, the one that provides exercise and learning to the aged mice... if they run and dodge fast enough.
[11:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:21] <exec> 08└─Alana M. Horowitz, Xuelai Fan, Gregor Bieri, Cesar I. Sanchez-Diaz, Adam B. Schroer, Geraldine Gontier, Kaitlin B. Casaletto, Joel H. Kramer, Saul A. Villeda
[11:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:01] <exec> 08└─What a bizarre article for phys.org. Anyway, if we ignore their "study" of 40 millenials, all of whom obviously live in cities where cars are optional, then we are left with their study of 2225 people "of all ages". First, we can snicker a bit at the theoretical contribution of this study: "a new fi...
[11:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:01] <exec> 08└─Did I say anything about my choice? Thanks God I don't need to make one.
[11:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:02] <exec> 08└─This is a bit different from the trolley problem. In this case you see an empty trolley careening towards someone tied to the tracks. If you throw the switch, it has a 50% chance of switching the trolley to a spur harmlessly. The other 50%, the handle breaks and it kills the poor guy anyway. Or you...
[11:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:04] <exec> 08└─It's easier to kill the player than the game, and if nobody is playing anymore, the game leaves as well.
[11:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:06] <exec> 08└─Quite a jump you're making from hate to kill. Besides, some billion people are players in the game, like anyone receiving their wages in bank account; do you intend to kill them all?
[11:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:23] <exec> 08└─At least he does something creative with his life and makes a lot of money on the side. Whereas you're more of a torches-and-pithforks guy, I get the impression. They kind the carries civilization to new heights.
[11:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:25] <exec> 08└─Is it still "feeding the troll" if you troll the troll into more trolling, without him (her??) realizing he's himself being trolled? Is counter-trolling a societally acceptable activity?
[11:29:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:29] <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.
[11:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:39] <exec> 08└─and it is getting worse over time, with the tech that allows doing it in bulk and over a distance, and even automating the process. But it has nothing to do with language, and everything with decreased likelihood of getting hit in the face for it.
[11:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:42] <exec> 08└─Those sorts of visions are often associated with certain types of epilepsy,
[11:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:44] <exec> 08└─It's at times like this I wish I had an education.
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[12:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:01] <exec> 08└─I've often wondered how much further and faster science could be advanced if all studies banned using undergrad and graduate students as study participants. They're not a random set, they're the definition of self-selection. They have high incentive to not be honest, but try to respond in whatever w...
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[12:23:02] <exec> 08└─It's not the downfall of union membership that is causing this. Globalization is causing this. Unions were only possible pre-globalization. Globalization is ready, cheap, offshore labor plus increasing automation.
[12:23:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:22] <exec> 08└─I understand that there is an ongoing debate on the "right to repair".
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[12:29:40] <exec> 08└─request consent to speak to others.
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[13:22:13] <exec> 08└─If nature found a way to improve all those functions, and did NOT turn them on by default you can bet your ass there's a downside. Like exposure to sunshine gives you all the Vitamin D you need. And cancer. So be careful billionaire tech owner guinea pigs when you microdose the protein.
[13:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:23] <exec> 08└─It's now illegal to uproot barely sprouted tomato plant seeds, because they have a soul since they can communicate with mummy tomato.
[13:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:00] <exec> 08└─If you die from whatever cause, you'll not be able to sue anyway. I doubt that anything you sign can be binding for your relatives.
[13:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─As you imply, there is no simple clear solution to complex problems - if there were, they wouldn't be complex problems would they? I strongly believe in the principle of "first do no harm" and people using hackavators should understand the risks before using them - otherwise you get the 737 MAX effe...
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[13:24:03] <exec> 08└─whatever rich asshole in charge of locking these things down gets covid-19 or similar but the ventilator they are stuck with breaks and can't be repaired.
[13:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:06] <exec> 08└─As for: if those ventilators weren't so expensive... thank your capitalists and their "free market" for that one.
[13:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:08] <exec> 08└─complicated by the fact that there's no a clear/accepted image of what that end (for the market mean) should be
[13:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:10] <exec> 08└─On the other side, if Runaway manages to not infect others even without wearing a mask, why should he be punished if he doesn't wear one?
[13:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:12] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I can't equate "manages" with "by chance".
[13:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:50] <exec> 08└─Not specifically, it doesn't even have anything to do with whether your estimate was accurate. It's more of an observational commentary about a frequently occurring exponential-like* distribution pattern. It's not totally unlike commenting on a bell curve: a whole lot of random distributions tend to...
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[14:22:11] <exec> 08└─... They just don't seem to have the imagination to do anything more than download torrents in the browser. Why not HTTP-over-BitTorrent? A web browser that opportunistically uses bt protocol for loading static content would be a hell of a lot cooler than downloading torrents in a browser.
[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─There are no Russians in the list; stop your scapegoating.
[14:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:28] <exec> 08└─How do you know there isn't any? She may well be a sleeper agent.
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:30] <exec> 08└─a collaboration with the UCSF Memory and Aging Center found that the enzyme is also elevated in the blood of elderly humans who exercise regularly
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[14:22:32] <exec> 08└─The downside is increased energy consumption. The brain is per-unit-volume the most energy-guzzling component of the body. Overclocking that baby leads to more energy consumption and more heat generation, and if not kept in check, may starve the rest of the body from nutrients. In other words, this...
[14:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─What is not clear to me is whether this sentence is specific about the experimental setup (as in, it is confirmed that the observed communication is not though one of those means, but really is electrical), or if it is indeed a general statement (as in, it is proved that those plants don't communica...
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─Apologies for repeating myself, but "Do RTF-DOI-A". Otherwise, the quoted passage says "It proves that the fast electrotonic signal transmission..." (and says nothing about the "Tree of Souls" in Avatar or any other forms of communication, it doesn't even say that they don't exist).
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─The sci article doesn’t make much sense either. Could you replicate the experiment based on the details of the paper? I couldn’t. Some kind of schematic showing where the stimulus is applied and where the response was measured would be extremely helpful. Or how about a control configuration in w...
[14:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:48] <exec> 08└─Your wages for this pay period will be garnished indefinitely due to your failure to pay child support for all the baby tomatoes from last month.
[14:23:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─Are they going to move out of the city as well, and then need a car?
[14:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:21] <exec> 08└─"She's expecting so much more" Yes, let's us guys figure this out. The ladies can't be trusted to tell the truth. In every survey ever done, your dick doesn't appear in the top 10 must-have items in a partner. Of course, if you are being selected on the basis of a must-have list then that's pretty f...
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Mm-hm is it also causing the 1% and 0.1% to award themselves massive pay increases? Shut up, douchebag.
[14:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:25] <exec> 08└─Plus 85% of them are Chinese. They probably ride bicycles pfffft hahaha losers.
[14:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:27] <exec> 08└─Width and firmness matters more in terms of pleasure. Too long can actually be an issue- most ladies don't like to be rammed in their cervixes. Even if you're very wide if they're aroused enough, they'll enjoy it a lot more than being rammed all the way in.
[14:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─That must be your personal blind spot.
[14:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:39] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I should not be surprised by this reply coming from an entity working on particles with a statistical distribution (grin)
[14:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:58] <exec> 08└─The idea of data carried over plain old sound link is like moth to flame for tech people. Historically for decades now the standard way to demonstrate various ham radio data modulations, most famously PSK31 back when it was new and FT-series stuff now, is just two laptops running the sound modems wi...
[14:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:57] <exec> 08└─And if they discover the Covid-19 virus in his blood, they can claim it as a Covid death.
[14:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Havana Syndrome - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:47] <exec> 08└─Couldn't it have been a EM attack (e.g. microwave or some other)? Just because people hear stuff doesn't mean it's a sonic attack - especially the brain is getting damaged.
[14:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:15] <exec> 08└─Water tower.
[14:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:27] <exec> 08└─Well that's what she said.
[14:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:29] <exec> 08└─It's a miracle that some people can still function in the world. If you need your privacy that badly, it's a fetish. Like killing all the germs or not seeing adverts in every possible place. The world is not here to satisfy your fetish.
[14:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:31] <exec> 08└─> that could be used for better things. The next invention will be TVs in cars. Your point was?
[14:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:33] <exec> 08└─So the only thing left is the hard part. Cool, sounds like you're almost there. We used to have a little in-joke about that. 1. Invent a car 2. Remove the driver 3. ??? 4. Profit
[14:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:35] <exec> 08└─Exactly. When the cost of a Tesla Self-Masturbating Penis Compensator drops below that of a normal car, or truck or whatever, expect the change to come whether it's good for you the menial wage slave, die die die, or not.
[14:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:37] <exec> 08└─It's dumb to turn COVID partisan when one side wants to open and the other side wants to mass demonstrate. Neither side really cares about the consequences and/or feel that their justification is more relevant than the deaths it will inevitably cause.
[14:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:41] <exec> 08└─If by "had an education" you mean "can read a dead language which hasn't been particularly relevant to modern academia for centuries", try Lingua Latina: https://www.hackettpublishing.com [hackettpublishing.com]
[14:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comet Neowise Could be a "Great" One. Here's How to Catch It Throughout July - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks.
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[15:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Libtorrent Adds WebTorrent Support, Expanding the Reach of Browser Torrenting - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:15] <exec> 08└─https://ipfs.io/ [ipfs.io]
[15:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Tries again for Starlink 9/BlackSky Global 1052 EDT (1454 UTC) - Scrubbed for Today [Updated] - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:21] <exec> 08└─It's much easier to go boom than go up. Those hobby high power Aerotech ammonium perchlorate rocket motors had to have just enough but not too much Teflon grease on the motor case o-rings or they would misfire past the o-ring and blow the parachute ejection charge on the pad.
[15:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Tries again for Starlink 9/BlackSky Global 1052 EDT (1454 UTC) - Scrubbed for Today [Updated] - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:24] <exec> 08└─ok
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not necessarily disagreeing with AC but improved muscle to fat body composition ratio and/or increased muscle mass always increased basal metabolic rate and its POSSIBLE its a package deal where traditional exercise (which our ancestors merely called "being alive") could for some obscure biochem...
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─Could some of the negative effects of drug/alcohol use on cognitive functions be due to liver damage?
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─It turns out that tomatoes are sentient, and now they are out to kill everybody! https://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:55] <exec> 08└─It's not like a sciency article needs to be a patent application, with all the method explained until "those skilled in the art" can repro without further instructions - that's what the reference section [tandfonline.com] is for. Speaking for myself, whatever I read from those references was from id...
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─You think souls grow on trees? What are you, an idiot? ...They grow on vines.
[15:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─I can imagine there would be MANY people interested in reproducing these results - they could have a big impact in our understanding of plant communication. Studying these electrical signals may eventually lead to a radical change in the way farmers monitor and manage crops.
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─Tomatoes are actually pollinated by small flies and wasps more often than bees.
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong, I'm not dismissive about those who have this kink, I have some different ones and I don't expect all the others would enjoy mine.
[15:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─crappy coffee
[15:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:42] <exec> 08└─most ladies don't like to be rammed in their cervixes
[15:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─Why are Asian Americans so much different than other Asian groups? Is there an environmental or dietary factor in penis size or are the numbers just funky because "Asian American" is a broad group?
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. If you push all your production to areas with wages far below home levels, where do you think those savings are going?
[15:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:59] <exec> 08└─Let's hope they take it a bit more seriously than pretty much any other group takes their oaths... Most people work for money, not because they feel strongly about what they're doing.
[15:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:01] <exec> 08└─no, many chose to do nothing rather that beeing assholes and push random people in front of moving machines in the name of a greater good that only they understand
[15:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The 3D Printed Homes of the Future are Giant Eggs on Mars - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:34] <exec> 08└─Round is fine for inflatable structures. Since Mars air pressure is really low, inflatable stuff might work well enough for buildings. Then the wasted space isn't an issue. But it all seems like putting the cart before the horse since there's little science that has been done to prove that Mars grav...
[15:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:52] <exec> 08└─Well hardly. One side wants you to get back in the firing line and the other side wants to dismantle the system of conscription.
[15:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:50] <exec> 08└─Maaaaaate, you can talk.
[15:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Vaccine Ready for Clinical Trials - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:25] <exec> 08└─Only the rich and only the white will ever see the likes of this
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[16:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:13] <exec> 08└─See! It was a mistake to self host. Just upload your content on a cloud server or social media website. No-one there would ever censor or shutdown your content.
[16:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Tries again for Starlink 9/BlackSky Global 1052 EDT (1454 UTC) - Scrubbed for Today [Updated] - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─I hope it does explode.
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─Oh EF, you're not fooling anyone with your AC and all. :) But seriously, it is all part of a plot to turn Americans even fatter and lazier (is that possible?) and take over. Trouble is, there won't be much left to plunder- maybe a few piles of nice bronze here and there (used to be statues).
[16:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─And maybe that crazy cat lady who talks to her plants isn't so crazy after all?
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─...I have some different ones and I don't expect all the others would enjoy mine.
[16:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 2071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:07] <exec> 08└─Civil liability? - No, it's worse than that, (most, and definitely ventilators) medical devices are regulated devices in most places. If you "repair" one without correct authorisation, or knowingly use one "repaired" in that way, you may be committing a criminal offence. This applies to both corpora...
[16:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:09] <exec> 08└─You or someone made that comment in the right to repair discussion and someone very unfairly slammed you in a ridiculous way that broken stuff would destroy the planet. Sheesh. Repairing and reusing is the best way to minimize environmental impact. Okay, some would argue it's better to recycle a pet...
[16:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:11] <exec> 08└─Admitted, we're just apprentices, but we have that great teacher you referenced.
[16:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says Full Self-Driving Tesla Tech "Very Close" - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:03] <exec> 08└─If you're a friend of the President, then you get a pardon. No need to bother with tricky laws and word games.
[16:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:03] <exec> 08└─> Shakespeare himself is responsible for inventing hundreds of new words Well that douchebag sounds like the preeminent SJW of his day. Curse him and his worthless labels.
[16:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:05] <exec> 08└─You hep wit da cats my man.
[16:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think any large number of humans will ever live on Mars. RIGHT Everyone will just live in space habitats. WRONG But you started so well.
[16:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:09] <exec> 08└─But when they finish eating that after the food runs out, what will happen to the genetic diversity?
[16:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:11] <exec> 08└─I've read somewhere (can't find now) that word migration almost only moves downwards - from socially higher classes to lower classes - and rarely the other way. The example used was Welsh. Almost no Welsh words have been adopted into English despite them being almost the same country for thousands o...
[16:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:13] <exec> 08└─Shoddy establishment probably didn't leave any sodas in the fridge either. "I need hookers and coke. HOOKERS AND COKE. Damnit!"
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[17:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:18] <exec> 08└─https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj43xq/cops-seize-blueleaks-ddosecrets-server [vice.com] On Tuesday, Emma Best, the founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets or DDoSecrets, a WikiLeaks-like website that has published the police data, said that prosecutors in the German town of Zwickau seized the o...
[17:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:20] <exec> 08└─someone tell the us govermint that if they wanted the data they could just go to the website and click "download"; there's no need to confiscate the WHOLE server ... i guess it's a case of "tax money allotment": if you don't spend your allotted tax payer moneies this year, you will get less of it ne...
[17:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:22] <exec> 08└─There was probably something very sensitive buried deep. Make it disappear is the usual M.O.
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Tries again for Starlink 9/BlackSky Global 1052 EDT (1454 UTC) - Scrubbed for Today [Updated] - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─I hope you catch the virus.
[17:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:58] <exec> 08└─Bbut what about the teh magic protein?? I didn't sign up for a major in Phys Ed.
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Possibly but outweighed by the genetic advantage of not being a pontificating self-righteous douchnozzle.
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─Modern human life is nothing resembling natural. Time to go all in.
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:24] <exec> 08└─Only if we can decode the signals. We have known about tomatoes "screaming" for years, we just don't know what they are saying. I really really really want someone to figure this out, mostly because I am gonna love it if their distress call is "vegans are coming", then I am gonna celebrate with file...
[17:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─Well, I mostly agree with you except in the matter of the purpose of scientific publication. I thought the whole point of publishing a scientific paper was to forge consensus among researchers, and one of the main ways in which this happens is by making it possible for other researchers to replicate...
[17:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:08] <exec> 08└─Finally we have descended ascended to decent Internet quality. Only took 4 years. Mansplainin' the clitoris, thanks for that - made my day.
[17:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:09] <exec> 08└─Dude! You're looking at pink bars on a penis graph. Serious questions only please.
[17:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:12] <exec> 08└─Cheaper prices? By the magic of the invisible hand.
[17:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:29] <exec> 08└─Iran would not have hardly any functioning ventilators without unauthorized repair. Right to repair should not just be framed as a first world problem.
[17:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:26] <exec> 08└─Seems reasonable. The only obvious exception would be things the conquerors don't have words for, like native plants and animals. Still explains why old saxon changed so much over those few hundred years.
[17:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Flights - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:27] <exec> 08└─"Well regulated militia" is merely an explanatory phrase and should have no weight. "The right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged" is quite clear. The reason for all the weaseling is that no-one wants to accept the blunt truth that the 2A allows private ownership of any weapon up to and inc...
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[18:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:22] <exec> 08└─As near as I can tell nobody's gotten Seth Rich'd over this, yet, so thats good.
[18:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:24] <exec> 08└─The thing is we pay taxes. We have a right to that data. OTOH governments are self serving. Just like the Chinese government, the U.S. government and every other government does things in their own best interest. They don't serve the public interest and neither do they intend to. They did not take d...
[18:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Libtorrent Adds WebTorrent Support, Expanding the Reach of Browser Torrenting - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:34] <exec> 08└─Never heard of it but the reply was pretty predictable.
[18:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Tries again for Starlink 9/BlackSky Global 1052 EDT (1454 UTC) - Scrubbed for Today [Updated] - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─They will whether it explodes or not. Starlinks are just spray cans afterall spreading the virus particles /con
[18:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─The brain benefits of exercise also extend beyond that protein into things like perfusion and vascular health...
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─Purpose of publishing, Is precluding the proverbial perishment, And providing possibility of protracted provisionmet. Thus persons printing promulgate.
[18:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─I will go cynically farther: how fast would science advance, if we took all the pretend scientists out of it. Social "sciences" are not science. Their studies are unsound, and if they were sound they would still not be reproducible. Of course, even in the hard sciences, the bar needs to be raised. T...
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─LOL. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence for any argument to be made about female sexual preferences, and no "evidence" other than philosophical navel-gazing about the nature of procreation by the mentally unstable. Some women want it fast, some slow, some clit only, some no clit action at all, ana...
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[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─Invisible hand works supply/demand, not profit margins on labor.
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[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:24] <exec> 08└─Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole
[19:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:25] <exec> 08└─It could also just find any giant planets immediately after the survey begins, if they exist and are close enough.
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─At bottom, basically need to watch a line in the sky https://www.aanda.org [aanda.org] How hard can that be? Maybe a preliminary starshot mission could look for it.
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think Starchips could find it unless you accidentally aimed one right at the object. I'm guessing preliminary starchips would be propelled by much weaker lasers than the Proxima/Alpha Centauri proposal and take decades to travel hundreds of AU. We should just see what Rubin, Subaru, and othe...
[19:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─Would that be Plan 9?
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─We don't need no steenking "legal" grounds. Got my M16 and F-35, that's all the "legal" I need... By the way, is there really only one server hosting this? Oops!
[19:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:25] <exec> 08└─The "(very large grin)" points to that AC being c0lo rather than EF.
[19:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─Where do you get "self-righteous douchnozzle?" Was there a value judgment made? Are you attempting to deny that long-term drug and alcohol abuse are linked to cognitive declines? Where does this anger come from?
[19:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─Even if we could start decoding it would take us awhile to ketchup.
[19:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:41] <exec> 08└─The "partner" choice does not necessarily have any relation to the reproductive choice.
[19:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:42] <exec> 08└─My pleasure. And hopefully hers as well.
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[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─I don't claim to know a lot about nuclear physics, but so far I was under the impression that for a black hole to form, you would need a LOT of mass because the gravity of the object has to overcome the other forces that keep the matter from collapsing into itself, e.g. you'd have to have SO much gr...
[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:38] <exec> 08└─That's why they said "primordial". If the big bang hypothesis is correct, and there's a lot of supporting evidence, then there's an argument that a lot of really small black holes of varying mass should have been produced during the process. Personally, I think these primordial black holes unlikely,...
[20:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:53] <exec> 08└─>> See! It was a mistake to self host. That's right... if #CrookedHillary had uploaded to a cloud server, she'd be President now.
[20:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Libtorrent Adds WebTorrent Support, Expanding the Reach of Browser Torrenting - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:03] <exec> 08└─You're not opposed to the idea, are you?
[20:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─> They're all grandparents now and watched their children lose their wealth through theft in the 2008 engineered financial disaster. I'm old enough to be a grand parent, but chose to not have kids. Back in the '70s there were plenty of clues that things weren't getting better on many fronts. Humanit...
[20:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:57] <exec> 08└─Every time I ride my bicycle past you at the gas station, I thumb my nose at you. Keep an eye out while you piss away your money on dino juice, that might be me rolling by with a big grin on my face.
[20:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:59] <exec> 08└─>> What's there for them? Tar and feathers.
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[21:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─If Pluto should be a planet, then so should Ceres, so that would make Pluto planet 10, not planet 9.
[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:28] <exec> 08└─Fourth-Largest Object in the Asteroid Belt, Hygiea, Could be Classified as a Dwarf Planet [soylentnews.org]
[21:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─I know, right! #DefundThePolice
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:44] <exec> 08└─That's because I haven't scheduled their suicides yet. -Hillary Clinton
[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─It was the web seed they hosted directly. The torrent and other web seeds are still alive.
[21:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Libtorrent Adds WebTorrent Support, Expanding the Reach of Browser Torrenting - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─Peertube uses webtorrent, that's at least a bit more than just downloading torrents in the browser.
[21:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:34] <exec> 08└─And in the sub characters at that. I would never have known (cough cough)! :) I was trying to deflect non-P.C. stuff onto EF... what with the "triggered" modders here- they'll remember you and pounce.
[21:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Detection of Electrical Signaling Between Tomato Plants Raises Interesting Questions - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:01] <exec> 08└─There once was a poster named Nonymous Whose quantity of posts were gironomous Some posts that you’ll see Will fill you with glee Too bad they’ll never be eponymous
[21:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:55] <exec> 08└─Hypocrytical idiots are putting predominantly Black auto workers in Detroit out of work, then running around saying Black Lives Matter,
[21:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:16] <exec> 08└─That is not a free decision. Just sayin. It's a real life decision of the sort people take every day, but it's not a free choice. Fairly heavy coercive pressure there.
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[22:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digicert Will Shovel Some 50,000 EV HTTPS Certificates Into the Furnace Today - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:22] <exec> 08└─If you break the internet and I can't access porn after July 11, I'm going to sue you.
[22:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Digicert Will Shovel Some 50,000 EV HTTPS Certificates Into the Furnace Today - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:24] <exec> 08└─This "cert" business is no damn good. It just centralizes authority, the very last thing we should tolerate on the WAN
[22:22:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole
[22:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─You can make a black hole of any size. You just have to squeeze it down to smaller than the Schwarzschild radius for the amount of mass you are using. r = 2GM / c2 . The gravitational constant G is pretty small and c2 is pretty big, so that makes r really tiny unless M is huge. Black holes emit Haw...
[22:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:44] <exec> 08└─OK, I can explain. For starters we're calling them Black holes now instead of black holes to show respect for all the African-American astrophysicists killed the the police. As for your question, the Black hole forms when one particle kneels on another until it overcomes the opposing force.
[22:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? The article summary quite clearly says they were using a cloud server. They didn't even know their server had been seized until after it was seized, when their hosting provider sent them an email to inform them. I guess this is a good reason to host politically-sensitive...
[22:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:49] <exec> 08└─Sure, but some people may actually have other medical issues that prevent getting a lot of exercise. Even if grandma puts racing slicks on the O2 tank, she's not likely to be competing in any marathons...
[22:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:50] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to tell you friend, you're going to die too.
[22:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Benefits of Exercise can be Gained with a Single Protein - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:52] <exec> 08└─Where do you get "self-righteous douchnozzle?" Just found one. They're everywhere.
[22:24:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations - 1075 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:49] <exec> 08└─What a bizarre article for phys.org. Anyway, if we ignore their "study" of 40 millenials, all of whom obviously live in cities where cars are optional, then we are left with their study of 2225 people "of all ages". First, we can snicker a bit at the theoretical contribution of this study: "a new fi...
[22:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should start an Ethics Fund which shorts the most egregiously moral violating companies. It can be like buying carbon credits - it offsets any bad effects you feel by owning said companies in your 401k pension fund.
[22:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:32] <exec> 08└─I've heard it said of medical devices that you don't buy the device, you buy an upgrade path.
[22:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:34] <exec> 08└─Look out for this AC guy when you two are done slobbing on eachother. He's real jerk.
[22:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:37] <exec> 08└─If I take a gun and randomly fire into the crowd, but by chance happen to not actually hit anyone, should I go unpunished?
[22:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:39] <exec> 08└─Exploited? I'm creating jobs for those fuckers. Nom nom nom.
[22:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:41] <exec> 08└─I can rip him 3 new orifices, I just don't like being pushed to that point. I'm really growing weary of ACs anyway.
[22:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:43] <exec> 08└─BTW, we'd had some misunderstandings, harsh words traded, but got it figured out so we're just overcompensating. It'll wane.
[22:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Repair Techs are Hacking Ventilators with DIY Dongles from Poland - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:45] <exec> 08└─...Most people work for money, not because they feel strongly about what they're doing.
[22:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MSI CEO Reportedly Falls from Building to His Death - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:05] <exec> 08└─His shitty bios had a bug in the artificial obsolescence code that burned a flash fuse and accidentally burned out the last, now they can't downgrade or upgrade the firmware and everyone's shit is going to work forever. No more sales. GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER! Flies off the building like a montey py...
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[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Nvidia's Market Cap Rises Above Intel's - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─That's how you build a quality PC. And a motherboard with high quality long-lasting capacitors. And quality power supply. And get divorced.
[23:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Digicert Will Shovel Some 50,000 EV HTTPS Certificates Into the Furnace Today - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─St. Greta wants to know if they have enough carbon credits to offset all the carbon from the furnace.
[23:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Digicert Will Shovel Some 50,000 EV HTTPS Certificates Into the Furnace Today - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:34] <exec> 08└─the idea of a circle of trust [zvelo.com] and is not a bad idea [ssl.com] The problem is the we have a top-down approach, where corporations and countries are making the rules. (see Little Brother [craphound.com] for discussions of distributed/ground-up alternative) The difficulty with bottom-up sol...
[23:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Propose Plan to Determine if Planet Nine is a Primordial Black Hole - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─If Pluto should be a planet, then so should Ceres, so that would make Pluto planet 10, not planet 9.
[23:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Has Thousands More 5G Cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla Says - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:05] <exec> 08└─You're that same asshole king of stupidity who has brain short circuits. The comment was purely at TomTheFighter. Had NOTHING to do with EJ. But in your scrambled placeholder for a brain everything is connected. Eat shit and bark at the moon.
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